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Most Popular Blogs Visual Basic or C#? 4476 Views Cool Visual Basic 2005 Tips: Part 1 Graphics and Icons 2281 Views I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. 1759 Views The Big Pink Button 1258 Views Why I Hunt 3 Views Most Recent Blogs Why I Hunt 5/14/2008 9:39:28 AM The Big Pink Button 4/13/2007 4:59:36 PM I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. 1/2/2007 9:08:34 AM Cool Visual Basic 2005 Tips: Part 1 Graphics and Icons 12/15/2006 3:31:28 PM Visual Basic or C#? 11/29/2006 9:29:20 AM
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James' BLOG
Why I Hunt Recently, I received this rather interesting letter from a reader of one of my books: “Im using your book at the mo and I like it. My opinion changed however when I found out you HUNT and seem proud of it. Frankly, killing animals for fun is sick and the people who do it are sick in the head. Did it ever cross your tiny mind that people might be offended looking at some twat proudly . . . (Read Full Article)
The Big Pink Button If you develop software, you’ve probably been frustrated from interacting with “them”. You know who I mean – those pesky end-users ; the consumers of your product. You’ve probably thought (more than once I’m sure) that these users are either: a: nuts b: dumb c: dumb nuts While I’ve seen my share of nut jobs, what I’ve found, more often than not is that when I think like this it’s because I’m t. . . (Read Full Article)
I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. I used to be a Microsoft Cheerleader. For years I defended them against the harshest of critics, but damn, they keep making it harder and harder for me to like them. Truly, I think their heyday has come and gone, and I'm not sure they'll ever recover. A few cases in point: 1. Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 isn't what it should be. While the promise of this development platform is HUGE, the del. . . (Read Full Article)
Cool Visual Basic 2005 Tips: Part 1 Graphics and Icons Hi all, At Tigerpaw, we're constantly forced to push a language well beyond what many programmers do. We've got about 12,000 end-users of our current release, and we closely mimic Microsoft's interfaces whenever possible. This means we spend a lot of time on details that otherwise get overlooked in many consulting or in-house projects. We license lots of 3rd party components (Infragistics, Compon. . . (Read Full Article)
Visual Basic or C#? I’m chilling out listening to some Innoway and eating a DQ butterscoth Dilly Bar when I get this email...Hold up, that’s not entirely true. I’m actually hiding out from all the kids in the house (each of mine has a friend spending the night), and I just received an email from a reader of one of my books asking me which .NET language is better: C# or VB.NET. This topic comes up quite . . . (Read Full Article)
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