Microsoft brain fuck

Been trying to get a .NET 3.5 demo app up and running for the past couple of days.

It turns-out that as far as IIS is concerned there is no .NET 3.5, just .NET 2.0 apps with a bit of extra cruft.

So, to get this working I had to create a ASP.NET 2.0 Application Pool in IIS, deploy the 3.5 app from VS2010, go back to IIS & change the app's Application Pool, AND THEN... because the template's web.config was hosed... comment-out a bunch of lines in the app's web.config.

Like I said, brain fuck.

vim for VisualStudio 2010!

http://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/

Oh my :-0

To get bollocked by Dave Korn... my water almost came-out my nose.

Thanks for fighting the good fight Dave!

WTF?

Today I had to create a Windows Service wrapper for a Java program.

I used Apache Commons Daemon

Damn thing wouldn't work. The wrapped app was checking for command line args and kept throwing an error.

Finally I got pissed-off and added a "-fubar" command line arg. Fuck me blind if it didn't work!

If you can't be good be lucky!

R.I.P. Numb3rs

Numb3rs is cancelled.

It was good while it lasted. (Ok, not really, but I enjoyed it.)

Can't beat a show where the smart guy gets the beautiful and very smart woman.

Einstein, Dirac, Godel, Selberg, Harish-Chandra in Princeton

Even really smart guys can't decide where to go for lunch! :-)

Shhhhhhh... don't tell

I spoke ill of Java too soon.

I'm growing fond of the new iterators (but who was the moron that decide ':' was the operator?) and rather loving generics.

I'm falling in the Old Ways rapidly... time to blast out into some OCaml or F# :-)

Back to the Java ghetto

Had to write a Java program yesterday, I forgot how painful Java is compared to Ruby... even the Java 6 cruft doesn't help much... somebody please pay me to write Ruby again!