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September 2004 - Posts

Double Dog Data

In my post Dog Days of Summer I told you how a stray dog had adopted my family while on vacation. I just wanted you all to know that we still have the dog, and yes we did all the prudent and responsible things that a dog owner should. It turns out she Read More...
Posted Friday, September 17, 2004 5:03 PM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Code Shock

The first time I ever saw code written in Java, it scared me. The code looked awful. I mean it. There was no way this stuff could be for real. The source code I saw looked as bug prone as anything I could imagine. There were 'new's flying around everywhere, Read More...
Posted Friday, September 17, 2004 10:41 AM by mattwar | 11 Comments
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Style is Serious

It's been difficult to focus on work lately, let alone find the time to contemplate something worthy of a blog post. The distraction of the presidential race is too compelling. My wife and I are glued to the television, CNN, FOX, MSNBC. I'm starting to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:54 PM by mattwar | 7 Comments
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The Truth about Longhorn

This was supposed to be another "truth about" post, but I haven't had the time to finish it due to the turmoil caused by last weeks announcement. Up until that point a statistically enormous percentage of the company was working on or around features Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:49 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Personal Teamwork

Do you every get that queasy, uneasy feeling when you are sitting at your desk, two monitors up, three terminal server sessions, four IDE's pumping, two in debug, one open on the laptop, that you've simply gone beyond the current understanding of software Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:03 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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