Money well spent?? A Short Story for Engineers You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story. A toothpaste factory had a problem: Due to the way the production line was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside.
Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow — Michael T. RichterI have an account at StackOverflow. Follow the link and check out a few stats: I've been a member for almost four years at the time I'm writing this. I've scored over 14,000 points in their gaming system. I'm in the top 3% of their contributors overall as of this writing.
Entity Framework Tips and TricksIn this show, Robert is joined by Julie Lerman, the author of several highly acclaimed Entity Framework books. Julie shares a number of Entity Framework tips and tricks including: While taping this, Robert's microphone malfunctioned. Fortunately, Julie's microphone picked him up.
I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones foreverHere’s something which shouldn’t come as a surprise, I like playing around with smartphones. I know, shocking for someone who writes about them. I wouldn’t say I’m addicted, but then addicts rarely understand they have a problem.
Proper Session/DbContext lifecycle managementMost “heavy” object-relational mappers (ORMs) have an interface that provides more than just easy querying of the database. They also are implementations of two key patterns: For NHibernate, this is the ISession interface, and for Entity Framework, this is the DbContext class.
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How much bias is introduced by the remainder technique?Here's an interesting question I was pondering last week. The .NET base class library has a method Random.Next(int) which gives you a pseudo-random integer greater than or equal to zero, and less than the argument.
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming HackA long time ago, when I was a college undergrad, I spent some time working on computer video games. This was in the 8-bit PC era, when the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards.
The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing RobotWhen a salesperson named Samantha West called a Time reporter, she seemed like a computer. But with current technology, it might not be possible to build such a robot, raising a truly bizarre possibility. Sometimes, you have to think like a scammer.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.