Scott Hanselman

My buddy Jonas Blunck, hero of the people and maker of ComTrace and IEHttpHeaders has done it again (along with Kim Gräsman) with DeveloperPlayground.  At first it looks like Process Explorer from SysInternals, but it includes such cleverness as:

DeveloperPlayground now lives happily in the hallowed halls of my C:/UTILS folder with the best of them.  Great job guys, keep it up!  I think be using and suggesting this util in my C# Class this fall.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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A nice clean way to describe the ramifications of the decisions we have to make every day.  Also, a way to describe to our bosses (in term$ they understand) why doing something quick-and-dirty may bite us in the ass.

"Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future" [Martin's Bliki]

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Still on vacation...it's my first one in I don't know how long and I am ALL kinds of jet-lagged.  I just don't know what time it is.  When we went to Zimbabwe (+10 hours) I had no jet-lag, but Malaysia (+15) is messing me up.

Anyway, turns out that the Zen of .NET presentation at TechEd Malaysia did all right.  Apparently there was a short write-up in the Malaysian newspaper "The Star" on The Zen of .NET.  I don't remember saying some of the quotes, but it's still nice to see that the talk resonated with folks.

Back to work, and too blogging on Monday.  I've got a particularly interesting Web Services and WSE 2.0 multi-protocol problem I've got to share.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Here's an interesting idea via Bill Wagner - a code copyright watermarker...it creates an obfuscated function that contains your copyright notice.  Clever...of course when you look at the generated code, you can see it isn't required and it's easily removed.

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Kevin Schuler's PDCBloggers.net is up and it looks like it's going to be HUGE - much bigger than TechEdBloggers.  Already the list of blogging Attendees is 46 and growing! 

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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