Rick Spencer’s post on how developers use the debugger is very enlightening. I didn’t even realize how I use the debugger, but when he talks about things that developers typically do, all I could do was find myself agreeing with him.
I haven’t used the debugger in Visual Studio 2005 yet, but it sounds like […]

Not that you couldn’t find these at these at either StarWars.com or Cartoon Network, but this is a great compilation of the Clone Wars micro-series airing on Cartoon Network, currently in season two.
It’s a vanilla page, but every episode from season one is available and season two is available as the episodes air. The […]

Interesting forum discussion on tweaking the SQL in phpBB to handle 5000-10000 concurrent users in a forum with almost 50 million posts.

Some changes are coming to Forever Geek and I am looking for your feedback. Comments are open.

Tweak-o-Matic is a tool for MS Windows that’s somewhere between TweakUI and Group Policy — it lets you change some of the same settings as TweakUI and push them to remote computers. The download page is one of the funniest I’ve seen in a long time (and definitely the funniest on any Microsoft product ever). […]

The .NET Framework’s Trace class lets you record details about your application’s runtime behavior. Tracing gives you insight into your running code, but using it “as is” produces unwieldy code and nearly useless traces. I’ll show you how to get around these problems with a trace class library to maximize the value of tracing in […]

Tempest for Eliza lets you use your computer monitor to transmit AM radio signals.

Assuming all of this is true, then I can not wait to get my hands on this. I spend way too many hours playing on my GBA SP and could only imagine how much time I would spend on the PSP.

Looking at these screenshots shows me two things:

Sun is actually doing something that geeks can be proud of
A cool 3D interface does not hide the fact that the applications still look ugly and cheap. Reminds me of CDE or something.

CodeSmith is a code generation tool. You create templates that specify the code to generate, and add properties (such as class name, namespace, etc.) to the template to further customize the output. It gets even better - you can even use most the functionality of the .NET base class library as well. […]

Even though it’s still a ways off, WinFS (Longhorn’s storage model) is looking really sweet. While there have been some articles on it at MSDN providing basic information about it, I found myself wanting to know more - all that it can do, how it works, how I as a developer can use it, […]

Tired of the Jaguar-esque striped look of IE5 in OS X? Change a few bytes of hex code in the IE package and you can remove them permanently.

This is pretty much page scrapping in C#. Okay, not really, but in the end it just comes out to be one useful, but huge, regex expression.

You have a resource that is shared by multiple threads. You need to provide exclusive access to this resource when a thread is writing to it. However, you do not want the overhead of providing exclusive access to this resource when multiple threads are only reading from it. You want to allow one thread to […]

OSNews has posted an article discussing the progress of SVG on the Linux Desktop. I remember a couple of years ago many people discussing the SVG revolution that was supposed to take over. Still waiting…

A great read for programmers who program using Qt and for those who just program. Gives insight into avoiding major pitfalls in creating horrible code. It is a shame that we even need this kinds of documents though.