The Least I Can Do...
At a recent user group meeting in Princeton, NJ (thanks, INETA), an attendee looked up my blog while I was talking, and noted that I was a terrible blogger. It's true.
My excuse was that I write a lot of words each month for various publications, and courseware, and there aren't many words left for a blog.
The attendee's suggestion was (the obvious) that I at least post links to articles as they happen. I suppose I can do that...
I'll try. In the interest of getting started, here are links to the last four columns for CoDe Magazine:
Try and Ye Shall Succeed: In which the author tries to live out a life-long dream (finding otherwise unused and unknown space in a new house) and explores the simple, but useful, TryParse method.
Moving and Downsizing: In which the author describes the trials that finally (OK, it was only 9 months) drives him from condo living, and describes a technique for shrinking huge SQL Express databases used by ASP.NET
My Not-So-Evil Twin: In which the author exposes the horror of cloning (well, really, a neophyte with the same name, posing public newsgroup questions the author would otherwise not ask in public) and somehow manages to twist this into a discussion of cloning using serialization. It's a stretch.
What Does That Beep Mean?: In which the author argues with tax collectors (never a good idea) over the meaning of the dreaded error noise in Windows, and exposes techniques for playing sounds using the .NET Framework 2.0.