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i've recently been reading the internal it blog, written by our cio. after the recent team meeting of 60 people, the 4,000-strong it grapevine was abuzz with the potential downfall of the agile development methodology. commensurately, the cio blogged abou
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7/29/2008 10:27:56 PM
as a senior programmer, my job requires access to things like source control and the agile storycard repository. since i haven't gotten access to these things yet, i've had alot of time to sit idly. there has been nothing for me to do, so i've been doing
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7/29/2008 10:11:33 PM
i've been puzzling on and off over ways to institute an automated ban system by checking incoming referrers for keywords and increasing banlevels automatically. i'm happy to announce this has finally come to pass with an ingenius stored procedure i wrote:
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7/29/2008 12:05:36 AM
i got into work today at my usual 7:45. my manager, having been on vacation since my arrival, asked me into his office shortly thereafter. obviously, there was the friendly "how do you like it so far" talk. unfortunately, it then turned to business. he ha
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7/28/2008 5:50:30 PM
you may remember my air conditioning issue, which i felt was indicative of a larger problem. well, i was right.
the car died on the way to buy some garbage bags today. it was behaving as though it had lost its electrical charge; the engine was dying
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7/26/2008 8:05:25 PM
the custom class project i wrote yesterday got reviewed today. as you might expect from someone of my exceptional skills, the code was looked upon with a sense of awe - especially when i told pc1 that i had done it in under two hours. this two hours inclu
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7/26/2008 5:49:50 PM
today i actually got to code something at work. i haven't gotten access to the source code and story card repositories yet; nor has my account been enabled for the corporate instant messenger client. however, my default "pairing buddy" (who we'll call vc1
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7/24/2008 10:06:03 PM
the major insurance provider i work for has several corporate discount partnerships, including sprint pcs. i noticed this last week while browsing the corporate intranet. unfortunately, i'm just a contractor and not an employee, thus not eligible for empl
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7/22/2008 9:28:16 PM
i was driving home today, as i do most days. while idling at a red light, my car started making an interesting sound. if you put several pieces of cardboard on a wheel in such a way that the z-axis of the cardboard (thickness axis) was aligned congruently
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7/22/2008 8:11:20 PM
recently i noticed some intriguing queries from ips within microsoft. some time ago, i wrote an entry about the tides of microsoft, in regards to their external-facing ips resolving to tide###.microsoft.com.
i ran a simple query to locate the search
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7/20/2008 7:26:54 PM
i've been considering rewriting the blog again. that is to say, writing another generation of the engine that powers the blog. currently i'm running two different user interfaces on damnednice.com (mv3) and zi255.com (mv4). this rewrite would likely retai
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7/20/2008 6:19:36 PM
intro & meetings
i have completed my first week at the major insurance provider. despite having posted several times about the job and the agile development methodology used there, i still have more to say.
friday, i went to a pre-pre-elevate me
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7/20/2008 3:28:20 PM
i'd like to make an exception to my standard humor, rants, and instructional posts, and discuss a serious issue. it plagues geek kind and the "night owls" throughout the globe. it causes some of the best parts of the human race to function well below thei
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7/19/2008 12:07:34 PM
via larry osterman (whom we have to thank for everything from mslanman to vista's audio stack. yep, he's been at microsoft that long.):
dr. horrible's sing-along blog is actually a videocast (video podcast? video? i never did figure out what to call th
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7/17/2008 6:30:37 PM
i've gotten many incoming search queries like c# string contains, etc; likely because people are trying to figure out how to determine if a string contains another string. i've already posted about programmatically detecting if a string contains specific
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7/17/2008 5:28:35 PM
initially i noticed that yesterday's daily report wasn't waiting in my inbox by 12:02am. i waited until 12:30 and queued another copy for delivery. that one failed.
the error received from the godaddy smtp server was "message refused". but it was lat
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7/16/2008 10:12:12 PM
today i got my first assignment: read a book. other than two meetings, reading the book was all that was expected of me. it was a small book; about 8"x6", with 80 pages of text. the topic: extreme programming. the assigner claims it to be a predecessor to
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7/16/2008 8:01:58 PM
i have officially started at (major insurance provider). it's my first personal exposure to agile development and service oriented architecture. my two-week vacation was relaxing, but it's good to be making money again.
good things i've noticed:
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7/16/2008 1:06:09 AM
chris pirillo recently posted a question to the internets: who uses internet explorer, anyway? as an experienced web developer and avid ie user, i felt compelled to respond. what's further, my comment was long enough that i felt it justified a whole blog
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7/15/2008 9:22:12 PM
the comment subsystem has been enhanced. now, when you view an entry in the entry viewer (i.e. clicking on "more..." or the magnifying glass icon on an entry), you can comment on the entry without having to close the entry.
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7/14/2008 9:06:49 PM
you may recall my recent interview with a major insurance carrier and the subsequent job offer they extended me five hours later. i've been on a two-week vacation since the end of my contract at a major telecom.
finally, an update has come through, a
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7/14/2008 5:23:54 PM
i've been receiving harassing phone calls from a variety of numbers; most recently 973.328.7372. the recording informs me that the factory warranty on my vehicle may have expired and that i should press 1 for additional information. i've had them remove m
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7/11/2008 4:18:14 PM
long zheng has created a task force to organize all the user experience and user interface bugs, issues, problems, and fubars of windows vista. i've been linked to there from several places over the past few months; everyone seems to be under the impre
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7/10/2008 3:20:08 AM
you may recall the interview i had recently with a major insurance carrier for a senior it programmer position, and that i was extended an offer on 6/26.
my start date was slated as "7/7 or 7/14", depending on how long the background check takes. jul
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7/9/2008 12:32:03 AM
in the past, the mv4 namespace has only had to exist in two places: zi255 and battlebot. however, my recent work with trackbacks and pingbacks has caused me to create a number of assorted visual studio projects, such as manualpingbacker, manualtrackbacker
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7/7/2008 10:47:48 PM
i received my $600 economic stimulus check today in the form of a physical paper check. about a week ago, i had received a letter from the irs stating that because my tax refund was direct-deposited, my stimulus check would be direct deposited into the sa
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7/7/2008 5:15:15 PM
i've been talking alot lately about pingbacks and trackbacks. that's because i recently added a pingback server and pingback client to the site. as part of my ongoing endeavor to further myself as a human being and a developer (and to kill time while betw
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7/6/2008 6:31:47 PM
via on10.net - sarah in tampa:
have you heard of line rider? this game, or “toy” as it’s often called, was originally created back in 2006 as a fun little time-waster that simulated physics through the simple act of of drawing a line with your mou
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7/6/2008 2:31:45 AM
you may recall the pingback server and pingback client i wrote for the blog. in my ongoing efforts to accomplish search engine optimization, i intend to write a trackback server and client as well. the two vary slightly.
the pingback specification is
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7/5/2008 5:28:12 PM
on my list of blogs i check daily, i found a video regarding going to lan parties; it occurred to me that i haven't been to one in about four years.
i stopped going shortly thereafter because i didn't like lugging around my 80lb rig, complete with a
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7/5/2008 2:22:19 PM
that's right folks, paint.net v4 has had its first compilation with build 4.0.3103.38608, milestone 0. well, this probably isn't the first build; but it's the first screenshot and the first i've heard of the project. as is the case all to often, i was ple
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7/3/2008 12:27:34 PM
via chris pirillo, who rarely blogs about anything non-mac-related lately:
i was up and about at 5am today (don’t ask), and i just so happened to catch a short email in my inbox:
the portable document format (pdf), undeniably one of the mo
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7/3/2008 11:46:11 AM
ever since i wrote my own custom pingback client in c#, i've been thinking of writing a pingback server. this way, when someone links to me (assuming they have a pingback client), i'd be notified. the plan was to run a custom web service or web page that
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7/3/2008 12:51:42 AM
some of you may be familiar with the über computer lab j and i have set up at home. others will likely notice that i've added pics and descriptions progressively as opposed to spontaneously. to that end, this post i
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7/1/2008 4:42:32 PM
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