This has always been one of my favorite Dilbert strips.  Why?  Because in our field, it's true.  Many times I've spent more time figuring out what to call something than I spent actually developing it. This week, I've been gathering ideas from team members on how to name some methods... [Read More]

I am actually doing a little coding today, woot!  Except, I haven't gotten NANTRunner to run on my Vista 64-bit workstation yet.  I need to use this in order to correctly build the solution. Running any build target from NANTRunner (even an empty one) was yielding this result:   By... [Read More]

I said in my last post that I was going to try yanking out a stick of RAM.  I had seen some mention of this in some message boards.  I'm either really happy or really sad (undecided) to report that this seemed to address the issue (for the most part).... [Read More]

Rick Strahl had a post with this title.  I thought I'd share my story too.  Somehow, we as consumers need to speak out to the banking industry and get them to change how this Multi Factor Authentication is being implemented. On Christmas Eve, Fifth-Third bank turned on their new security... [Read More]

I must live under a rock.  CompUSA is closing its stores.  I stopped by tonight on my way home from work to pick up a wireless router and PCI card for my mother-in-law's new Dell, and they had store closing signs all over the front of the building.  The shelves... [Read More]