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The Blue Screen of Mort

It happened just the other day when I least expected it. No one would have expected it. Not me, not you, not your cousin, your grand-father or your grand-father’s cousin’s dog; no one. Because there was no warning, not even a hint, not a glint or glimmer Read More...
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 5:56 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments
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Luca Spaces Out

Luca has a blog post that says some kind words about me in regards to our work together on ObjectSpaces. Really Luca, you don't need to convince me of business needs to get me to do your bidding, you just need to convince me it was my idea. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:27 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments

Reddit Randomnes and Wayward SPAM

I am left to only chuckle at the inanity of it all. Wayward == Marketting? Uh. Sure. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:49 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Agile at Microsoft

I wasn’t always a proponent of Agile development practices. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know what they were. Before I came to Microsoft I used to just do what I was told and simply worked the way everyone else worked. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 8:01 AM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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The Origin of LINQ to SQL

LINQ to SQL, possibly Microsoft’s first OR/M to actually ship in ten years of trying, was never even supposed to exist. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:52 AM by mattwar | 28 Comments

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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The Dog Days of Summer

Its been difficult to find those few private moments where I can pull out the laptop and commence coding. I've been feeling the itch too often. I need to compile. Yet the weather has not complied with my wishes. The rain still pours down from above, ideal Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:29 AM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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And there was Rain

It was a long and grueling day. It started late and ended late, and it was long and excruciating in between. We knew it going in the night before, we weren't packed, but at least everything else was done and ready for us to be gone for the week. Except Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:11 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Less than Express

I'm heading out today on vacation for the week, far away from all things digital, miles and miles away from anything with a functioning central processing until, no cell phone coverage, no bandwidth, just blue skies, mountains, tall green trees and the Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:43 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Hurricane Charlie

To think, there was a time in the past when my home was actually a place of solitude, a veritable utopia of serenity. I would travel home from work and find nothing but peace, pleasurable silence and often a warm welcome. Then things changed, not too Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:17 AM by mattwar | 7 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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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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