February 2008 Blog Posts
Congratulations are in order to Liz and Kent on the birth of Isobel Wylde Chamberlain. You are no longer eligible for a Darwin Award.
I shall not be following your example for obvious reasons.
Small feature request for the next version of Visual Studio:
Include templates that generate code that will compile if the project has XML documentation and Treat Warnings as Errors turned on. It's not such a big ask, is it? I'm finding it especially irritating while adding ASP.NET pages that have no code in their code behind, yet I need to edit the damn thing anyway.
I've lost track of the number of times I've encountered people using wildly inappropriate systems with which to build solutions. Sometimes this is because they are familiar with the system and apply it by default to everything (which I discussed in Generalists vs. Specialists). At other times this is because the system has already been purchased or is already available and there's a feeling that it's wasteful not to use it. In other circumstances it may be that because it has applicability to a subset of your problem it's been applied to the entirety of your solution without questioning it's...