I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

Ya know, I really tried to give team foundation server a fair shake. My opinion on it is as follows: It's a generally better source control system than source safe. It's really expensive. It's a pain in the ass to administrate. It's a pain in the ass to troubleshoot. So, I haven't...

I think most people who have been in the IT industry for an average amount of time can agree with my perception that for the most part, the consulting industry is garbage. Consultants are expensive, usually on par or worse than your full time employees, and for the most part are willing to bend a client...

Simple rant, nothing more. Just sent in some immigration papers for my wife, who is a Swedish citizen who came here when we got married. The paperwork carried a $275 processing fee. This brings the total since she came here two years ago to be well over $2,000 plus the time we had to spend apart while...

Some humerous, some serious. Here we go! YouTube goes down in history as one of worst business decisions ever After the **AA machines chew it up and spit it out, YouTube goes the way of the napster and other content providers before it. It will also then hold the record as one of the most expensive acquisitions...

Ready to pull my hair out over this one. Decided to use System.Transactions in my latest project, so being I'm doing my development on my local machine with a dev SQL Server 2005 install on a 2k3 machine I need to turn on MSDTC stuff... So running the code that uses system.transactions on the server...

Dear Paypal, Your api documentation and setup process... what's the right word... sucks. The sign up process is pretty confusing with menu overload, and the fact that you need dozens of third party vendors to build wrapper carts says something about the ease of use of your API. Please fix this, there...

Nothing is more dangerous than a programmer pushed into a DBA role who doesn't know crap about databases. Too often, you see consultancies, smaller organizations, and people in general trying to save a buck and not bring any DBA presence on board. Too often I see arrogant developers claim that "DBAs...