http://thinkersroom.com/bytes 2+2=5, for large values of 2 Fri, 16 May 2008 08:42:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's old news by now that CodeGear has been brought by Embarcadero technologies. Now, while established CodeGear staff  sound very chipper about it, to me it is just the death knell sound of the kicks of a dying horse. CodeGear is the the quintessential example of a company that never ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2008/05/16/borlandinprisecodegear/ First the good news. I was re-awarded my MVP status for the third year running. Needless to say, I am pretty chuffed. I've gotten a lot of encouraging feedback about the feed reader. Contrary to popular belief, work has not stopped. In fact I will have a feature complete version within ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2008/01/07/happy-new-year-2/ They've got guts, I'll give them that .... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/12/01/huh/ Welcome back. After taking a look at understanding the problem, today O will discuss some of the issues to do with connectivity. But first: Progress As Of Today If I do say so myself, I have been VERY BUSY working on this. It is beginning to take shape and then some. ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/11/06/building-a-feed-reader-3-downloading-feeds/ Welcome back to this series where I share my experiences in building a feed reader. To keep you interested, and prove that I'm not just talking, what I'll be doing is showing you where I've reached so far and then go on to the meat and potatoes Progress As Of Today ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/11/01/building-a-feed-reader-2-understanding-the-problems/ I depend heavily on RSS. To find out what's going on in general and in the technology sector. I have subscribed literally to hundreds of feeds. Needless to say, I need a tool to better help me manage all this information. For a very long time I have been looking ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/10/31/building-a-feed-reader-episode-one/ If you are a serious developer, you are certain to have either come across or used tools to profile your application. This will let you know a couple of things about your code: How fast it (the program) executes How fast each method executes Bottlenecks within the code Number of ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/10/01/profiling-net-applications-i/ Microsoft Excel 2007 has an interesting, albeit embarrassing bug. Type the following into a shiny new spreadsheet Press Enter and you should see the following Then, type the following You'd think you'd get the same result. This is where you would be wrong ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/25/interesting-bug/ Being the kind of advanced chap that can walk and chew gum at the same time, I generally listen to music as I work. And a few minutes ago I was listening to Kanye West's I Wonder, from his Graduation Album. Brilliant does not begin to describe it. You need ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/21/rolling-back-truncates/ No, I have not died. I have been very much alive but have had pressing commitments on other levels that have kept me from contributing actively to Bits & Bytes, something I shall correct forthwith! Regular programming will resume soon. As a happy iPod classic owner (I'm tempted by the ... http://thinkersroom.com/bytes/2007/09/18/odds-ends/