It turns out I have 258 bookmarks. Bookmarks, for me, are as much an ever-growing database of information as they are key-stroke saving conveniences. Find an interesting StackOverflow discussion that’s likely to be useful in the future? Bookmark it. See a restaurant I’d like to try? Bookmark it. Tired of typing google.com/calendar over and over? …

Late last night, as I was writing up a new blog post, I glanced down at my category list and realized I needed to change what was selected. Right away, I noticed that the “Most Used” tab was selected instead of “All Categories”. I must have clicked it by accident, I thought. But when I …

One of the great disappointments of a programmer’s workday is creating a component only to discover shortly after finishing that someone else had already created the exact same component. Happened to me the other day. Literally 30 minutes after quietly putting together a DevExpress DateEdit that only displayed years and months, I hear a coworker …

* Unless you were told this: “All that matters is that you consume fewer calories than you burn.”

Many moons ago, in preparation for a major rewrite to my QuickShift application, I wrote a low level keyboard hook implementation in C#. The original version of QuickShift employed global hotkeys to respond to keyboard input, however that mechanism proved to offer less-than-ideal performance: When the OS recognizes a hotkey combination, it responds by posting …

This makes me laugh every time. Enjoy, but be aware this is NSFW! :-)

Noooo, not that kind of naughty. Not sexy-naughty. I mean naughty-code naughty. As in poor quality, half-baked code. That’s what I got when I purchased the lovely WordPress theme I’ve been using on this site since September 2011. And while I still really like how it looks (mostly), I’ve long since decided it is the …