I’m not sure when it happened officially but I have never noticed until today.  I was looking a business up that I needed to go to during lunch and saw a street view on Google Maps.  I then checked a few other places and it seems most of Hattiesburg, MS is now covered on Street View.  I pulled up my house on street view and it appears they came by last fall, about a year ago.  I know this because the palm trees at the end of my driveway are now much bigger and have since been trimmed back.  I...

How Clean is Your Closet? Have you ever been instructed to make an enhancement to an existing project where the codebase looked like the picture above?  I have.  As a matter of fact, I’ve done my fair share of creating messy code just like that.  I’m not saying I’m proud of admitting that but as they say, “The truth hurts”. Let’s pretend for a moment this is my closet and you were visiting.  We were about to leave to go to town and you said, “Brrrr, it is cold outside, do you have a...

Get Latest Version Here: http://keithelder.net/software/witty/witty.application (requires .Net 3.0 framework) It has been awhile since I published a version of Witty Twitter.  I was going to push one a month or so ago but new features were not ready for prime time.  This version has a few neat twists in it.  Here is a list of things that were added.  Witty now supports multiple URL services.  TinyUrl is the default, but it also supports Bitly and ISGD. Another feature added is the ability to filter tweets.  This would have been handy during election...

Have you ever felt like the world was moving at the speed of light, yet you were just doing your own thing?  That’s how I’ve felt lately.  It seems everyone has tons of stuff to talk about on their blogs and Twitter.  I decided I was going to force myself to write a blog article this morning to start my Christmas vacation off and after thinking about what I was going to blog about it hit me.  I don’t have anything to blog or twitter about!  Call it a Blog / Twitter Slump if you will.  Then I started writing...

Have you ever felt like the world was moving at the speed of light, yet you were just doing your own thing?  That’s how I’ve felt lately.  It seems everyone has tons of stuff to talk about on their blogs and Twitter.  I decided I was going to force myself to write a blog article this morning to start my Christmas vacation off and after thinking about what I was going to blog about it hit me.  I don’t have anything to blog or twitter about!  Call it a Blog / Twitter Slump if you will.  Then...

Have you ever felt like the world was moving at the speed of light, yet you were just doing your own thing?  That’s how I’ve felt lately.  It seems everyone has tons of stuff to talk about on their blogs and Twitter.  I decided I was going to force myself to write a blog article this morning to start my Christmas vacation off and after thinking about what I was going to blog about it hit me.  I don’t have anything to blog or twitter about!  Call it a Blog / Twitter Slump if you will.  Then...

Have you ever felt like the world was moving at the speed of light, yet you were just doing your own thing?  That’s how I’ve felt lately.  It seems everyone has tons of stuff to talk about on their blogs and Twitter.  I decided I was going to force myself to write a blog article this morning to start my Christmas vacation off and after thinking about what I was going to blog about it hit me.  I don’t have anything to blog or twitter about!  Call it a Blog / Twitter Slump if you will.  That’s why I entitled...

 Listen To This Episode  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-22-the-future-of-net-dotfuscator-with-gabriel-torok/   If you have ever used Visual Studio you may have noticed in the tools menu there is something called Dotfuscator.  This is the tool that allows .Net developers to obfuscate their source code and it has been in Visual Studio since 2003.  In this episode we caught up with Gabriel Torok, President of PreEmptive Solutions, at PDC 2008 and discussed some of the news related to Dotfuscator announced at PDC. Enjoy. How To Listen To The Show 1. Directly From...

 Listen To This Episode  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-21-talking-performance-with-performance-preacher-rico-mariani/   We have YAPDCT (yet another PDC talk) for everyone.  One of our good friends Jennifer Marsman introduced us to one of the legends at Microsoft, Rico Mariani.  Rico is currently the Chief Architect for Visual Studio.  He’s been involved with performance for years and has some interesting takes on why developers should take performance seriously up front in their design.  We lobbed Rico an open ended question to kick off the show to get him going and he ran with it from...

Christmas is right around the corner and what better time to start thinking about building a new developer machine.  I’ve been wanting to build a new computer for several months now but I haven’t kept up with the new boards, cases, video cards, etc.  Over the Thanksgiving Holidays I spent a fair amount of time researching and pricing the kind of machine I would build if I built one right now.  Instead of keeping all this hard work to myself I decided to share it.  Who knows, maybe someone out there is looking to upgrade or do a new build....