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November 2004 - Posts

Monday, November 29, 2004 11:57 AM

"Holiday Lights" or "Christmas Lights"

In response to my Holiday Lights post , "a guy" wrote : They're Christmas lights, dude. Jews don't string up lights. So while it's properly a "holiday party" at your office, and you wish people "happy holidays" (not knowing their religion), you just don't
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Sunday, November 28, 2004 9:11 PM

Holiday light time...

After hosting Thanksgiving at our cabin (and going up to Stevens Pass for fun, where there was a total of 3" of snow on the ground (9" now) - not quite enough to start skiing), we came back Saturday morning to put up our holiday lights. I wrote about
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:22 PM

Lore's ratings of "SKATEBOARDING MOVES FROM THE TONY HAWK GAMES"

I know that I've linked to Lore, in the past, but I haven't looked at his ratings in a while. This one particularly got to me: Nose Manual This has something to do with balancing on two wheels, but it's better out of context. Frankly, I think we could
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Monday, November 22, 2004 10:04 AM

I think because I run?

From ScienceBlog A new study assembles evidence that humans evolved and human anatomy looks the way it does because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they could run. Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances
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Sunday, November 21, 2004 4:19 PM

What's wrong with this code? (#3) - Answer

Here's the discussion for the my last post . I liked Matthew's response: ...don't throw "Exception" since you are not supposed to catch "Exception." Anybody handling exceptions thrown by this code would have to catch Exception and ignore asynchronous
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Friday, November 19, 2004 8:32 AM

Podcasting...

One of the hot topics in the blog world these days is Podcasting . Podcasting is a way to automatically get MP3 files from the internet down to your portable device (doesn't have to be an iPod, or even a portable - it works just as well on a desktop).
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Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:45 AM

What's wrong with this code? (#3)

No, you didn't miss #2 - it was about using "throw" rather than "throw e" to preserve the stack information, and I decided it wasn't worth a full post. This weeks snippet is also related to exception handling. Here's the code: void UpdateBalance() { try
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:20 PM

The Next Five Big NASA Failures

Jeffrey F. Bell writes in SpaceDaily : One of the most annoying things about NASA is that its dysfunctional management wastes a huge amount of effort on projects long after they are clearly doomed. You know, I can't agree with him more. I think the space
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:22 AM

C# Test Driven Development class at BCC

If you live in the Bellevue area, you might be interested in C# Advanced Test Driven Development at Bellevue Community College
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Monday, November 15, 2004 4:44 PM

Transparency in Product Development

Soma (VP in charge of the developer division) writes about being more transparent . I, for one, think that we have a way to go in this area, but it's not my opinion that matters - it's your's. So go read the post and comment on where we've made progress,
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Monday, November 15, 2004 10:00 AM

Ambient Orb Programming

A couple of months ago, C# Language Design Team Member Erik Meijer bought me an Ambient Weather Forecast Beacon from Ambient Devices . I think of these devices as the colorful, glowing analogs of the SPOT watches . They combine pager receivers along with
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Monday, November 15, 2004 9:45 AM

More on Halo 2

I finished the campaign yesterday afternoon. I'm not going to give any spoilers away, but while I like the new additions (new enemies, new weapons, better AI, and good backstory), I didn't feel like there was any big task at the end of the game. I just
Posted by ericgu | 8 Comments
Friday, November 12, 2004 2:51 PM

What's with those "break" statements?

One comment from my recent post was big enough to handle separately... Thomas wrote : I'll second the break statement. Why is it really necessary? Haven't you guys got enough feedback to acknowledge that wasn't the brightest move? You say it is there
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Friday, November 12, 2004 2:30 PM

C# - What's wrong with this code? - #1 (Answer)

Thanks for all the responses. There were many correct ones, and a number that I want to at least comment on. Plus one that will get its own post... If you've written Win32 code, you've probably written code like: result = ::CallWin32Function(); if (!result)
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Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:56 PM

C# - What's wrong with this code? - #1

Many months ago, I did a TechEd talk entitled "What's wrong with this code?". I've decided to re-target those snippets into blog posts. If you were at the talk, this may be boring, though I'll try to add a little anecdotal information in my answers. Here's
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:59 PM

Red vs. Blue Season three

I was a big fan of the first season of Red vs. Blue . The second season was a bit uneven, but I'm happy to report that the third season has started well. In particular, episode 40 is wonderful. Whisper whisper whisper and Without the flag, who will lead
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:47 AM

Halo2 Game Viewer

Ryan pointed me to this post by Scott Hanselman . Now, I'm not sure I really need an RSS feed of the Halo 2 games that I played (though I see why you'd want it for a clan), but I'm pretty impressed by the game viewer stuff. I looked at a rockets game
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:28 PM

Halo2

Today I spent a few hours playing Halo2 - after waiting 90 minutes with 1000 of my closest friends outside the Microsoft company store. The campaign seems to be pretty good, but it has the usual problem with FPS campaigns, where it needs to strike a balance
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Monday, November 08, 2004 7:31 PM

Hopkin Green Frog...

Hopkin Green Frog . Great photoshop expertise.
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Friday, November 05, 2004 9:26 PM

The Incredibles

Tonight we went to the opening night for The Incredibles , the latest collaboration between Disney and Pixar. Monday, I'm going to buy some more Pixar stock. Pixar and Disney have hit a home run with this feature. Take one part superhero movie, three
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