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Scheduling and Interruptions

On hacker news for the last couple of days an essay by Paul Graham has been on the front page, its called Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule.
Paul put into words something I have known for a long time, generally software developers(I use myself and people I know as examples) when interrupted tend to take longer [...]

Woops…or how I messed up my computer…

So I have really been pushing to get some posts going here, but it seems like every time I have the opportunity to get something going something else comes up. I have 2 posts now in the pipe, just need to be edited and then they are good to go. That being said, I messed [...]

Suprisingly….

Surpisingly(and please don’t kill me for saying this) ..ASP.NET isn’t THAT bad.
 I am not fond of the drag and drop interface that you are given in visual studio, it tends to slow me down more than help me. However, how the controls for ASP.NET are built as classes and you can create your own controls [...]

Ottawa Update

Well, I’m pretty sure the Ottawa blog isn’t happening, I don’t think the motivation is there for Nicole and I already have my own blog so its hard for me to justify another. I just finished my first week of work at Service Canada and it went pretty well. The people there are nice and [...]