My roommate’s cat is such an attention whore. # @ejacqui I hate those skate shoes. # Still working on pulling back data from my web service in Flash. Still hate Flash. # @jwright honestly, i’m not surprised, tablets seem to be a bit of a techie niche, codemash was the most i’ve ever seen in [...]
Read more →enjoying this dual-monitor setup on my desktop PC entirely too much. # Hmm. I thought Expression Blend was included with my MSDN Sub (I have VS2008 Pro), but I can’t find it anywhere on MSDN downloads… # @SteveJWallace that figures. i thought the ones with VS2008 Pro got Blend, but I guess not. oh well. [...]
Read more →Awesome, just scored a 22" LG widescreen on clearance at CompUSA # Lame, LG didn’t include a DVI cable in the box. Good thing I have a spare. :P # Oh god. This new LCD is awesome, and i’m using synergy to effectively triple-head now. # Getting VS2008 installed on my desktop machine, now that [...]
Read more →Home from CodeMash. Didn’t win anything at the raffle. :( Trying out Witty on my Vista machine…. # Reinstalling boot camp and vista on my MacBook. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Read more →CompUSA is going out of business, and we have one near me. I’ve been looking to upgrade my monitor on my desktop PC for a while, preferably on the cheap. I’d stopped by the local CompUSA a few weeks ago to see if they had any good deals, but all of the interesting stuff was [...]
Read more →@MightySquid what’s wrong with hulu? # Checked out, had breakfast, now at Brian Goetz’s keynote on concurrency. # Drinking from the firehose at Neal Ford’s DSL presentation. # at the CodeMash raffle and closing session, then heading home straight after. Freaking tired, glad it’s only an hour drive to Akron. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Read more →Or, “I came for the swag, I stayed for the sessions!” Once again, there’s a TL;DR version at the bottom of the page. I felt much better this morning, so I got around, checked out since I wasn’t staying tonight as well, then got to the banquet hall for breakfast and a keynote from Brian [...]
Read more →just got done catching up with an old friend/coworker at the codemash expert’s panel # Just got done w/ breakfast at CodeMash, now waiting for Neal Ford’s keynote # Bruce Eckel is talking about how Open Spaces works prior to Neal Ford’s keynote. # Remind me to sit closer to the front for the next [...]
Read more →First day of CodeMash is over and it’s been pretty busy. Here’s some summarization of my day and random thoughts on it. It’s long. TL;DR version at the bottom. First up, we had Neal Ford’s keynote, Software “Engineering” and Polyglot Programming. My initial impression based on his slides was that he really likes pictures of [...]
Read more →I’m sitting here in my hotel room after the Expert’s Panel at CodeMash, and decided I needed more ways to waste my time. So naturally, I signed up for twitter. You can follow my feed at http://twitter.com/edmistond if you’re sufficiently bored or a twitter user.
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