First: Principles

Someone left a comment on my OurMedia post suggesting that I check out SmugMug . It seems like a nice enough site, but I wouldn't use ...

We drove from Bloomington to Penn State this weekend. I took Friday off work and drove two hours to my dad's house, piled into his van ...

Mike Stall comments on how not to organize your mail . I recently read David Allen's Getting Things Done , after reading a recommendat...

If you use it correctly, ISO 9000 can be a positive thing for your software company. Here's the secret: Observe the procedure, don'...

This looks to be a really interesting project. They claim that they will archive your digital media forever, basically. Sounds nice, but I ...

* Avoid duplicate code. Anywhere there is duplicate code there is the potential for bugs. Code must always be changed, and anytime you lea...

Quote from this article in ComputerWorld: "Another recent variant, Sober.M, which surfaced back in April, deliberately used incorrect ...

Went to the local .Net users group meeting tonight. They showed off some of the new features of VS 2005, including refactoring and unit tes...

VBS is coming up quick! My responsibilities are getting things written and printed, and handling the closing ceremony. I've written up...

Implementing the Singleton Pattern in C# Nice discussion including threading issues.

I'm taking the plunge into learning ASP.NET now. I have a couple of minor things I want to do for my first application: allow posting ...

Available online , very cool. Courtesy of Eric Gunnerson .

I spent a few minutes before I started writing digging for the link . Doesn't it seem like anyone who makes a living as a consultant sh...

Here's some really good advice, with lots of real-life examples, on how not to create a web site. #1. Don't choose a site that'...

(As if there was anything more narcissistic than a blog). I've started a web site devoted to people named Ben Fulton . We are quite th...

There's a certain kind of multi-generational book that appeals to me; the kind where you get to look back across many generations and re...

Our VBS has a directorship-by-committee this year, and I'm on it. It's a new thing for all three of us, but we're working toget...

I did a bit of research for this article, after it occurred to me that I really wasn't sure how to answer this objection. How DO you kn...

One interesting thing I've noticed about Extreme Programming in particular is that any objection you can present to a single practice, u...

This is a friend of mine who has been blogging for a while now, but I haven't found the site until now. Her host, Xanga, does not do an ...