MyHeritage: Inspiring Leader

Oh, you have to try My Heritage. It diagnosed my temperament perfectly:

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Refactoring vs. Procedural Code: Would you refactor this?

When my application starts, it sets in motion a process by which an event is received back at the main form. It's an event that's common enough (let's say, "Maximize Window") but the first time I receive it, I have to process it in a special manner. So, I have …

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Cheney. Dick Cheney.

What's troubling about this is that the press, in reporting this incident, jeopardizes the plan by which Cheney poses as a geriatric heart patient, lures terrorists into range, and then blasts them to hell.

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Take That, Options Scalper!

It's always nice to make a blogroll cut.

But then, optionsScalper gloats about coming in "above" me, so of course I check to see how out-ranked I am.

You'd think that a guy who makes his business in derivatives trading would recognize alphabetical ordering.

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RIP: Mansour Safai

Mansour Safai, an important player in the software development tools industry, has died. He was still young and my thoughts are with his family and children.

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Novell a good fit for ex-Borland Delphi Group

Of all the scenarios being mooted on the purchase of Borland's line of compilers and IDEs, the one that I like the most is Novell.

Novell's Mono project includes an implementation of the .NET CLI that runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, and a number of UNIXes. The Delphi group …

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No-Longer-Borland Folk Seem Confident

Every indication is that the people involved in Borland's compilers and IDE are confident that they will carry the products forward.

I talked to a couple people and I still haven't heard of a specific suitor, but there's also a real tone of confidence.

There's already a "Delphi Corporation", but …

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Borland Casting Off IDE, Compilers

Today, Borland announced that they are seeking a buyer for their line of IDEs and compilers and will concentrate on their Application Lifecycle Management tools. They also announced that they're buying Segue, which on a normal day would be big news, but, my god, the end of Turbo?

This really …

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Tablet-based handhelds around the corner?

::: {.Section1} TG Daily is reporting that [“Ultra Mobile Lifestyle PCs” will be launched in the 1^st^ Quarter]{style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"} (not much time to make that!). I think there’s huge potential for this form factor if the price point can really be brought down to …

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Outlook's Fatal Flaw as an RSS Aggregator: Desktop Search

I use NewsGator as my aggregator, but I think I'll have to change. The problem is that when RSS posts flow into your system as email items, desktop search for real email becomes much less useful.

For instance, searching your real email archive for words like "schedule" or "deadline" would …

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