August 2010 Blog Posts
Learning a new language can be a rewarding experience, if for no reason but to view the coding world in different way. Another way to enrich this experience is through the environment that a company creates to actually write programs. Visual Studio and Eclipse have spoiled me rotten, which is why I grit my teeth at times when developing for the iPhone/iPad with XCode, Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for writing apps on the iOS platform. A few quick rants:
Why do I have to @synthesize everything by hand? Why can't I click a button and XCode...
Rant time.
I work at a Fortune 200 company and like most large enterprises we also use Microsoft Office. As a business productivity suite I think it's the best out there, no matter what the open source hippies might say, but when it comes to development with these products, I really get my panties in a twist.
Everyone has beat the IE horse to death, so I won't go there, but today I was augmenting a vendor software package to send automated emails out to end-users. We like to brand our communications, even to our internal customers, so producing quality communication is...
Every once in a while I go check out my Google Analytics account to get an idea of how people are reaching my website. A lot of my traffic is driven by Google searches, so imagine my surprise when I saw this term pop up in the list of key words:
I'm pretty sure that I am not the intended target, however, my blog does show up as the #1 hit for that search. Nevertheless, I am fairly certain I am not a good political candidate, if for no other reason that I say what I mean and mean what I...