Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
Yellow Sticky Exercise
Yellow Sticky Exercise Take one pack yellow stickies (aka "Post It" brand sticky paper notes). Place...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/21/2006
Bugs, blogs, and surrogates
Back in 1996, I was a QA lead for the C++ compiler, and our group wanted to incent people to fix and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/21/2006
Dell woes...
When I started in the Video Memories group about 24 months ago, I got two new "dev boxes" from Dell....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/20/2006
Windows shell team website
The windows shell team has started a blog at ShellRevealed.com There's a blog, and some forums....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/20/2006
Fun with a ISU Inclinometer
For a while now, you've been able to buy digital levels. Amazingly, they will display angles within...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/17/2006
Avalon (I mean WPF) book recommendations?
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good Avalon book. Which one do you like, and why?
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/15/2006
AV components and cable prices
Somebody on an internal alias asked, "why is a HDMI cable $60 when the DVD player is also only $60",...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/13/2006
DVD Maker, Wizards, and SuperSite for Windows
Last week, Paul Thurrott wrote a post entitled, "The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1", in which he...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/11/2006
xkcd
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I really like this Venn diagram...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/05/2006
Happy Birthday
Yesterday was my wife's birthday. There were two presents of note. The first was a serotonin...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/24/2006
Visual Studio should be part of Windows
My good friend Dan writes a post about why Visual Studio shouldn't be part of Windows, in response...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/24/2006
Feel the pain...
Dare wrote a post talking about the advisability of making developers do operations. Which is really...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/21/2006
Chicken salad d' Italia
Here's an easy-to-make dinner salad, though it does involve a fair amount of chopping... Frozen...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/14/2006
The Morale Marauder
The Morale Marauder (carpe factum) (via The Mindset (via Chris' Comments)
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/08/2006
The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences
Raymond wrote a really nice series of posts on this: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 He also points out that...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/08/2006
Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Review
Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Review (sorry for the duplicate post. I started this a few...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/04/2006
Seven deadly sins of programming - Sin #1
So, the time has come for the worst sin. Just to recap - and so there is one post that lists them...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/03/2006
The Seattle Monorail collision...
Raymond brings up an update on the monorail collision in Seattle. I started adding a comment to his...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/01/2006
Going to Seward for a week
We're taking a family vacation to Seward in a week or so. We're planning on doing some fishing and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/24/2006
Seven deadly sins of programming - Sin #2
One of the guys on my wing during my freshman year of college was a trust-fund kid. His...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/24/2006
Windows DVD Maker - Hello, Projects...
During our initial implementation of DVD Maker, one of our mantras was "We are not an authoring...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/18/2006
Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #3
I'm sure this is going to be a contentious one. I don't have a good story about this one, so I'm...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/18/2006
Bad Computers in Movies
I read Photoshop Phriday every week, but "Computers in Movies" is especially nice. Who can forget...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/06/2006
The Microsoft Interview
Here's a nice post on how to answer questions at the Microsoft Interview...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/05/2006
Carmichael Training Systems Review
Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Review www.trainright.com This spring, I decided to pony up...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/05/2006
Improving the user experience...
Most bugs that I fix in the DVDMaker UI are fairly benign, but yesterday I fixed one that could have...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/29/2006
Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #4
Our next sin is the one that I've certainly been prone to. Long ago my wife and I owned a house east...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/26/2006
MSDN Wiki now open for comments...
I'm happy to be able to announce something that has been in the works for a fair bit of time. MSDN...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/20/2006
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft Robotics Studio. Looks interesting. Uses a CLR 2.0 base, though it's not clear to me yet...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/20/2006
A single programming language?
I've been reading Good Math, Bad Math for a while now, and it has a fair number of interesting posts...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/08/2006
Bavarian Sounwerks - Speakers for BMWs
I've been unimpressed with the sound on my 328i since I got it. I have the Harmon-Kardon system, and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/05/2006
A close escape, and more on inappropriate cleverness
Monday I went on the 7 hills ride. Wednesday night, I wrote a long and detailed post about it, and...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 06/02/2006
Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #6
Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #6 Way back in my early career, I worked on a graphics program...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/31/2006
Seven Deadly Sin of Programing - #7 - Excessive coupling
(these will be in reverse order...) #7 - Excessive Coupling We start out with a simple one. Coupling...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/23/2006
Anybody working on an interesting hobby project?
Anybody working on an interesting hobby project? I finally got around to firing up my Atmel STK500...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/22/2006
Make your own motivational poster
If you're a fan of Despair, Inc., now you can make your own. Motivator
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/19/2006
Random sometimes, not random other times
From a email: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){ Customer c = new Customer();...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/19/2006
My favorite driver's ed moment
One of the comments on my last post reminds me of a story. Back when I took driver's education -...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/18/2006
Sacrifices
Sacrifices are part of parenting. And as a long-time parent, I've made a fair number of them....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/18/2006
The Seven Deadly Sins of Programmers
A while back, I made an offhand comment about something being one of the seven deadly sins of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/16/2006
Using GC Efficiently
Spending lots of time on C++ means I haven't been paying as much attention to managed code as I did...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 05/11/2006