JonGalloway.Kills.Bunnies

"I don't care what [Jeff Atwood] says about namespaces...my default namespace prefix is now JonGalloway.Kills.Bunnies"

- Phil Haack

Beautiful Code

"I find it immensely helpful to work on the assumption that I am too stupid to get things right. This leads me to conservatively use what has already been shown to work, to cautiously test out new ideas before committing to them, and above all to prize simplicity."

- Jonathan Edwards

BuiltWith.com

I love this idea.  I'm always curious about which technologies web applications that I come across in the wild are using.

I just hope they improve their algorithms a bit.  For example, they weren't able to tell me that Cork'd uses Ruby on Rails.

I'll be keeping an eye on them.

LinqToSpaceTime

"Tangent: anyone notice the clock on Scott's computer during that Airline demo webcast? It read 10:30 pm and then magically, when he added the reference to the web service, it became 12:20 am. I asked Scott what the deal was and he told me that a new feature in .NET 3.5 is LinqToSpaceTime... I wonder if I can use that to get my day back today..."

- Rob Conery

Out With the Old, In With the Nu

It's official! I'm leaving my old haunt and heading to NuSoft, a company I've admired and respected for years.

This is a great opportunity and a huge step up in my career. I'll be working with the best and brightest in Grand Rapids.

Wish me luck!

Expert Developers

"Experts are lazy, they work smarter rather than harder. Experts prefer the easiest solution that gets the job done. Experts aren't interested in creating complex solutions simply to have the complexity, that misguided egoism is the territory of more junior developers."

- Frank Wiles

Brain Food 8-5-2007

• 12 Reasons I Use Rails instead of .NET - Softies on Rails has a great rundown from the perspective of a former .NET developer.
• QDB: Quote #779320 - The best definition of "Web 2.0" I've ever seen.
• Pivots of the Web: What's Next After Social Networking? - Read/WriteWeb has a nice breakdown of the various eras the Web has gone through so far and what the next era may be.
• Open Source On .NET Is Not An Oxymoron - Amen, brother!  I'm very fond of several open source .NET projects including SubSonic, CruiseControl.NET, and NAnt.