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July 2004 - Posts

Focused on the Customer

The top level management at Microsoft spend a lot of time keeping the rest of us focused on the mission, making sure that we never lose sight of the end goal, and that its all about the 'customer', not the fantastical whims of a few developers. Still, Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:25 AM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Warped Weaving

Aspect oriented programming uses a technique called 'weaving' to merge together and/or modify portions of functional/procedural code, to produce code that at the same time is both highly efficient and easy to understand in cases where normal procedural Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:04 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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User Interference

There's a lot about todays web-site interfaces that bug me. First, let me say that many sites are utterly fantastic and its not the lack of content or style (that plagues many home page sites for example). It's the sheer overload of unrelated information Read More...
Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 4:14 PM by mattwar | 14 Comments
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Parallel Polarity

Sometimes scientific discoveries are not made in the lab, sometimes they are born out of conjecture and backed up by observation alone. Thank goodness for that or I'd have never discovered the truth. I suppose many of you have thoughts on occasion that Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:07 AM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Confessions of a C# Hack

I've been making a lot of changes lately to the c# compiler. You won't see these in Whidbey so don't ask me about them yet. For the most part, it hasn't been too tough. The compiler was designed well and is generally easy to make modifications too. Yet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:59 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Reusability Rant

During my lifetime (so far) of programming I've worked on a many projects that were built around or including external libraries and components. These are packaged units of software purchased from a vendor for a specific purpose. However, no matter how Read More...
Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 11:12 AM by mattwar | 10 Comments
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Xen meets its Omega

I got a surprise in my inbox this morning. An email from Erik Meijer read: The impossible has happened: X# became Xen, Xen became Comega, and Comega has shipped. http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/default.aspx . Enjoy Matt Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:11 AM by mattwar | 9 Comments
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Fishing for Answers

Everything you do in your day-to-day life, how you approach solving even minor problems, reflects in the way you write code. My soon to be four year old son, Charlie, has had his mind set on getting a pet fish ever since the movie Finding Nemo came out. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:05 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments
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Chicken Scratches

You can tell when I'm really deep into my work, writing code that is more than just boiler plate, that has something new and unique, a special approach or optimization. But don't look at the screen, you won't necessarily see it there, unless you are good Read More...
Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 11:11 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Feeling Stupid

Programming makes you feel stupid. All the time. Just when you think you finally understand something, know all its ins and outs, along comes something new that you know nothing about, not even enough to hold up your end of a speculative conversation. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:38 AM by mattwar | 13 Comments
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Procrastinating Paradigms

Programming is sometimes a mind boggling and perplexing thing. If you know what you want to do, and how to do it, then it is a breeze and you can whip out a thousand lines a day, write an entire app over the weekend. If you don't know what you want to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:48 PM by mattwar | 7 Comments
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Slow as Molasses

I hate it when it goes slow. Everything has been blinding fast for months, and now its such a slow crawl that it is driving me a little over the edge. I'm not talking about the CPU, or the compiler or even my speedy sports car. I'm talking about my ability Read More...
Posted Friday, July 02, 2004 3:14 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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