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February 2004 - Posts

Agile Development SDLC Documentation

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:52 AM by mitchell
I've been tasked with working up some documentation to outline how are XP practices are used. Anyone have any examples or samples or live ones out there which I could ruthlessly plagiarize that they'd be willing to share? Actually, I'm looking more for Read More
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The Person with the Most Toys at the End Wins, right?

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:38 AM by mitchell
All seriousness aside, I'd like to have somewhat to store up for myself sometimes! This is one of those ideas that is just too hard for Americans to get sometimes. It's amazing to me that we look at some families who own houses, cars, TVs, and computers Read More
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A Case of the Mondays or Stop the Insanity!

posted Monday, February 23, 2004 3:35 PM by mitchell
Man, do I ever relate to today's verses sometimes! As a programmer one of the most dreaded assignments in the business is to have to come in behind someone else and maintain their work. What that usually means is lots of skull sweat, time, and finger-numbing Read More
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"interplanetary roadside assistance"

posted Monday, February 23, 2004 2:47 PM by mitchell
Here's an awesome article on the Mars rover. Talk about remote debugging. Read More
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It's Not About You

posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:29 AM by mitchell
We are shortly to begin the 40 Days of Purpose of campaign in our church. The first chapter in the book, A Purpose-Driven Life, is, appropriately enough, all about how “it's not about you.“ As I said before, I struggle sometimes with how to Read More
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Tippling Kipling

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:36 PM by mitchell
A friend of mine responded to my last blog, and mentioned the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. And while, as he says, “Kipling is not inspired by scripture,” I would argue that Kipling was inspired by something. Since we are created Read More
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Adult Delinquents

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:26 AM by mitchell
You know as I was reading the passage below it struck me that Christians as a whole and in general are considered weak because of their faith and that whole “turn the other cheek thing.“ I'm not going to go into a debate on cheeks and Read More
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Seen and Unseen

posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:29 PM by mitchell
I never knew that the music artists Jars of Clay were a Christian group. Once I found out, I wondered where they’d gotten the inspiration for their name. Now, in today’s devotional, I have finally found the answer to that question. It’s Read More
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Shock Troops

posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:28 PM by mitchell
Should have actually posted this yesterday: Taken from Men of Integrity.net (www.christianitytoday.com/men/): Back in the 7th and 8th centuries, Christianity virtually died in Europe. Organized Christianity collapsed with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Read More
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Paris Hilton is the Princess of Darkness?

posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:10 AM by mitchell
Anything that forces a LOL reaction has to be shared, right? Here's a quote taken from the GetReligion blog which, in turn, took it from the BorowitzReport: “Apparently, a typo during a search for "bod" yielded this insight: In contrast Read More
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Asleep at the Wheel

posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:38 AM by mitchell
Been awhile since I blogged last. What can I say, I've been busy. We have (well, had) an impossible deadline to meet handed to us by the business folks. They came up with the specs from the client, we said 4-6weeks. They came back and said the client Read More
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Ten Rules of Peformance

posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:34 AM by mitchell
Paul Vick's “Ten Rules of Performance”. Read More
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PostBack question

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:17 PM by mitchell
I've got a question for any ASP.NET rotorheads out there. I have a form with multiple buttons on it. It's OK if they PostBack (because I need to reset some controls server-side anyway), but how do I know which button caused the PostBack? Read More
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Violence, Television, and all that Jazz

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:14 PM by mitchell
Here is a quoted quote from an email newsletter I get from Crosswalk.com: Yet as [Ken] Myers notes [in his book All God's Children and Blue SuedeShoes], "Abstract ideas are . . . essential to themaintenance of the social order; freedom, justice, and Read More
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Only in America! and only for Geeks!

posted Monday, February 09, 2004 9:33 PM by mitchell
This has got to be one of the funniest things I have read in awhile. Read More
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Serializable and Remoting

posted Monday, February 09, 2004 9:24 PM by mitchell
I just went through a little bit of, as my wife says, “H”-“E”- “double hockey sticks”, with a remoting problem. We make all the nice little method invoke calls that return objects across the wire which was working great Read More
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They've got their genes on too tight

posted Monday, February 09, 2004 5:59 PM by mitchell
The following quote was pulled from the Dawn Patrol, and is part of a larger, very compassionate view on homosexuality and Christianity: The idea of a "gay gene," however, is ridiculous to me. Scientists are now racing to discover such a Read More
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Nullable Ints

posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:28 PM by mitchell
Mark Bonafe asks about ints and nulls. The solution our team implemented is below (sorry about the formatting). Anywhere you would use an int, use a NullableInt instead. (We also have NullableShorts and NullableBools). Read More
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Passions Enflamed

posted Monday, February 02, 2004 11:34 AM by mitchell
Interested in the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's The Passion? Here's an interesting article from The Revealer. As I said in my comments to the article, it strikes me as strange that the Rev. Stanger seems to have some misguided theology regarding Read More
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Wanna swap bosses?

posted Monday, February 02, 2004 10:14 AM by mitchell
Here’s an interesting item from our brothers across the pond: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/01/28/63977.aspx. This, from the blog cited above, is probably the most important part: Excellent managers don't drive change simply by setting Read More
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