Homeworking...

Stumbled across an article yesterday (cant remember how), which raised the issue of working from home. Now obviously not all careers are suited to this sort of option, but programming definitely is! I like the idea of working from home,…

Cheesy Puns and Awesome Code

Tonight I attended the Perth .Net User-group, where Joe Albahari was speaking on some of the upcoming features (puns are awesome) in C# 5, specifically the new async and await keywords. It was a very, very interesting night and (thankfully)…

Exceptions and Preserving Exception Types

An interesting thing happened to me today, while working on an enhancement for the application my company supports. I was tasked with ensuring validation worked on collection of objects, exactly the same as if it were a single object being…

Differences (Chapter 5)

I've just completed Chapter 5 of the MCTS Self Paced Training Kit for 70-515 (Web Developer). Over the past month or two I've been slowly working my way through the book, and the things that I read are in some…

Chapter 1... Complete. Sort of.

Well, I just finished chapter 1 of the 70-515 Self Paced Learning Kit and I gotta say Im enjoying it quite a bit so far, and Im still at the basics. And I mean reeeeally basic. Like File ->…

Self-Realization

/looks back at the date of the last entry... Wow, has it really been that long? /sheepish grin Things have kind of gotten away from me the past 10 months, with married life being a tad more hectic than I…

No Internets!

God I hate moving. Seriously, nothing bugs me more than having to pick up all my crap and move it somewhere else... It just feels like time wasted. In any case, my Net will be offline pretty soon so there…