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My new clients have responded to our shockingly complex architecture by specifying, get this, the names of the source code files we are to deliver. So, apparently if we can't negotiate this away, our class structure will be memorialized in the specification contract! Oh, Lordy. Why does the phrase "sunk …

Already I'm seeing people falling into the interface vs. implementation mistake with LINQ. Because I think LINQ is a big deal, I'm going to put up a LINQ Wiki RSN, but I had to post this because it got under my skin so: The compiler does not translate your query …

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If "hurricane flooding New Orleans" is "utterly predictable disaster with shocking lack of preparation, especially regarding the poor," then how do we feel about the news that bird flu is breaking out in Jakarta's main zoo?

A little more than a year ago, I moved to the Kona side of the Big Island of Hawaii and moved into a house that, among other things, has coffee plants growing like weeds. I was too late to the game to do anything last year, but for the past …