January 2007 - Posts
Kombucha
I've discovered over the years by watching shows like Good Eats and reading On Food and Cooking that creating food is a science. Some of it is chemistry, some of it is math, some of it is physics, but it's all science. I was nudged in the direction of creating food using biological science by reading various tidbits of Jay Bazuzi's blog . Jay has made cheese , kvass , and sauerkraut. All of these foods...
Automatic Updates Should Be Automatic
It used to be that software with an update mechanism was unheard of, but now it's completely unprofessional not to include some sort of "Check for Updates" menu item. I am completely on board with a manual update feature or an automatic one that checks for a new version when the application starts up. There is an increasing number of applications, however, that have opted for a background, always memory...
Breaking Changes are No Big Deal
So, here's the setup. Your boss comes to you and says, "We need an organized way to handle breaking changes in classes defined in a shared library when an object of that class type crosses a serialization boundary and is deserialized from one version of the class to another." What do you do? If you are like me, at the same time as you are looking at him/her like they have just gone bonkers, you are...
Contextual Spell Checking
One of my biggest frustrations is simple spelling and grammar mistakes. I'm not talking about the big, hard to remember English rules (we have plenty of them), but the more simple ones. Like for example, people who don't know the difference between "their" and "they're". It's like nails to a blackboard for me. I just found out that Word 2007 has a great feature that...
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