I don’t know about you, but I like pretty things. Things that engage me. Shiny things. I enjoy seeing the same old thing in new and interesting ways. I suppose I’m just a visual kinda’ guy. Unfortunately, the desire for visual representation is at odds with the high bandwidth flood of information we’re subjected to these days. Even if we manage to trim the overwhelming flood of information down to a laser-focused stream, it still takes an immense amount of effort to make sense of it. For example For years the primary way we’ve looked at the...

If this error dialog is any indication… the end may be imminent! #FAIL Let’s just hope this error dialog never makes an appearance in a nuclear energy plant, missile silo, etc… Technorati Tags: visualstudio,funny

Have you ever thought about just how much time we software folk spend focused on the technologies we’re using, on implementation minutia, and on all of the shiny new solutions we should be using? Now contrast that with how often we stop to think about the whys? Why are we being asked to solve fizz-buzz-thing; do we understand the motivation and context behind the problem, or are we fixated on how we’ll build the solution? Are we asking why a problem occurred, or are we merely focused on how we fixed it, this time? Why...