May 2011 Blog Posts
I have a web application that I have been tinkering with for years – about 6 years; it’s built in ASP.NET Web Forms with VB. Every so often, I jump into this app and create some new features or fix some bugs, and over the past few years I’ve been itching to get it converted over to C# and ASP.NET MVC. But the application has about 100 screens (distinct views – often a single ASPX will have multiple screens) and there are tens of thousands of lines of Web Forms event-driven code, so I’ve been intimidated by the idea of...
Today’s XKCD comic had the following ALT text: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy". I felt compelled to put this to the test with a single example. Would “Toothpick” lead me to Philosophy? If so, how many clicks would it take? Here is the result: Toothpick Wood Plants Life Physical body ...
I saw mention of Google Scribe the other day. If you open it up in Chrome, it has a feature for reading your mind. Okay, it’s just word completion. While I can usually type a word out faster than I can read what auto-completion is providing me, break my stride, hit the space bar, and pick back up on the next word… it’s still fun. For extra funness, I decided to see what Scribe would produce if I typed only 1 letter and then let auto-complete run with it until it stops suggesting words. I did this for each letter...