Given my day job as a software developer, I tend to get asked random questions by family and friends about computers.  On this occasion, my dad was asking me how to make some C# code work, since he’s working on a C# based project.  I popped open the project in Visual Studio, noticed that it [...]

The backlash against NoSQL has begun!  After enjoying a solid rise in popularity over the last 12-18 months, people are starting to fight back.  The problem is that, as always, people are missing the point.  NoSQL became popular quickly because it addressed an area that DB servers do not: scalability.  Of course many businesses have [...]

I’ll have to file a bug report for this, since it is so interesting, though more investigation is required to see how pervasive it is. Generally, when I use Wicket, I don’t use a FeedbackPanel to display error messages to the user. Instead, I use a FormComponent.IVisitor that walks through all the FormComponents for the [...]

The new µTorrent UI just doesn’t do it for me; replacing the ‘play’ start button with that weird up-down icon, the other icons, the menu bar style itself – they just don’t fit well together. Changing a UI to make it more functional is one thing, but breaking something that was pretty perfect makes no [...]