I've always wanted to write. I love Tolkien's LOTR, Shakespeare (MacBeth is my favorite ... yeah, I know its dark, but it really grabbed me), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Beowulf (very cool monsters), and Homer's the Illiad (The Odyssey is just alright). I knew I was never going to be

In the past I have been skeptical of the refactoring tools purely because my experiences have been such that they are buggy, can slow down my IDE while they are processing and have even crashed my IDE at times. Well, its been a year or so since I have tried them so I figured I would give them anothe

I am happy to announce that I am joining ASPSOFT [http://www.aspsoft.com/] (aka the haven of the angrycoder [http://www.angrycoder.com/], Jonathon Goodyear [http://aspsoft.blogs.com/]). I ran across Jonathon somewhat by accident when I was exploring the job market in southwest Florida, we started ta

Scott Stewart [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sstewart] gives a good overview of Delegates and Event Handlers in his recent blog [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sstewart/archive/2005/04/17/68152.aspx]. He has some good points regarding how to define events and some of the implications of not using

As I posted last week [http://codebetter.com/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/06/07/64248.aspx], I got up a new iPod mini [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70703/wo/e27TQK9bYtLU25UWo552kIaHoMA/1.0.0.11.1.0.6.9.1.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0] for running and light soccer drills. It was