Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien Promises Blog -- Enraged Ottawans Support Me

imageI'm going to be interviewed by CFRA (580 News Talk Radio) in a bit about the plans of Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien to bypass mainstream media by blogging. 

Early feedback is that Larry "Amulet of Protection" O'Brien's rants on light rail are vastly less entertaining than Larry "Chillin' at the …

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Lang.NET Videos Up

http://barrkel.blogspot.com/2008/02/langnet-symposium-videos-are-up-in-wmv.html

Recommendations :

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/1-05 - Lively Kernel - Dan Ingalls - Sun.wmv

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/2-01 - Newspeak - Gilad Braha - Cadence.wmv

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/3-08 - Cobra - Chuck Esterbrook.wmv http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/3-09 - Intentional - Magnus …

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LINQ to XSD Alpha 0.2: Now We're Talking

LINQ seems to be an overwhelming success (I've been having a hard time finding anyone with bad things to say about it), but what most people are talking about is the nice Object-Relational mapping tools. The ultimate goal of LINQ, though, includes uniting not only objects and relational data but …

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1/3 of Jolt Finalists Available In Kindle Edition

There were next-to-zero technical books available for the Kindle shortly after its launch. I was delighted to discover 4 of the 12 books that were finalists for Jolt Awards this year are now available in Kindle form:

  • Geekonomics
  • Outside In Software Development
  • WPF Unleashed
  • xUnit Test Patterns
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Why Am I Not Receiving PayPal Emails -- Through Two Different Email Addresses?

I need to reset my PayPal password. I went to their Web and requested a reset. "Check your Inbox" it said. 24 hours later, I called PayPal and they manually sent me emails: one to that address and another to another email address! Neither appeared. Neither are in the respective …

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Build One To Throw Away, You Will Anyhow

Such was one of the many pieces of advice of Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month and while others of Brooks aphorisms have stood the test of time, completely scrapping a codebase is today seen more as an aberration than a painful but necessary part of the process.

Andrew Binstock …

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Democratic Caucus

If the November elections are anything like the Democratic caucus I just attended, it will really be something. Turnout was 4-5x the 100 or so expected and the workers ran out of Democratic party registration forms. There was lots of visible support for Obama (native son, true) and none for …

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Clever

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(follow image link to Zazzle store...)

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Thoughts on Kindle Annotation

Based in the S3 Cloud (of course).

Every book has a unique Wiki based on ISBN.

You annotate via a Kindle-browser-friendly blogging engine.

You can view threads chronologically (normal blog view) or if they incorporate references to Kindle "positions," they can be threaded by location in the book.

Server-side stuff …

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Continuation Passing Style: The Simplest Metaphor That Could Possibly Work

Continuations are one of those things (like lambda expressions a few years ago) that people seem to struggle to explain.

Doesn't this capture the essence?

DoSomeProcessing.asp?BasedOn=SomeParameters&IfItSucceeds=GoToAPlace.asp&IfItFails=GoToADifferentPlace.asp

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