Archive for May 2010
Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever 2 has launched!
Posted by: sarah on: May 31, 2010
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After seeing last year’s success with the original Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever (TDPE), Jeff Blankenburg decided to create another round. Some of the new things with TDPE include: A new home page A new look to the Twitter account More puzzles - 100 levels this time around! More puzzle makers, including: 2nd year veterans Jeff Blankenburg [...]
ASP.NET 4 Breaking Changes
Posted by: sarah on: May 31, 2010
These are called breaking changes for a reason - in upgrading to ASP.NET 4, you run the chance of running into any of these things that can break your website. I recently updated my account with DiscountASP and moved this domain to a Windows Server 2008/.NET 4 environment. The next step was to get my [...]
Another WiTty Observation…Boy Toys, Girl Toys…
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
Another WiT-related thought came across when I saw this retweet from datachick of this particular Saturday Morning Breakfast Comic (webcomic). I couldn’t hook up my Cabbage Patch Kids, Sylvanian Families, or Barbies to the computer when I was a kid. The closest I came to a futuristic girly doll was Astronaut Barbie. We didn’t have [...]
Where Women Fail - The Programming Beard
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
Note: This is not meant to be offensive in any way and is purely an interesting observation amongst guys in programming. where women shouldn’t be competing. While I was reading some tweets this morning, I came across Kevin Mitchell‘s link to Unix beards. Sorry, ladies… this something that we should not try to strive to [...]
Silverlight 4 - Webcam Permissions Out of Browser?
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
While playing around with Silverlight 4 and working on my demos for my talk on Tuesday at the Cleveland WPF User Group, I came across a peculiar situation. I’ve got a webcam demo and wanted to see just what I could do with it to add my touches to it. Of course, being the curious [...]
Computer Careers Represent in Best-Paying Jobs for Women
Posted by: sarah on: May 15, 2010
I came across this article on CNN about the 25 best-paying jobs for women, and I was pleased to see so many computer-related jobs on there. Check this list out: Computer software engineers Computer and information systems managers Computer and mathematical occupations Computer scientists and system analysts Computer programmers That’s 20% of the list! [...]
ASUS Adventures - Some SUX, Some Not So Much
Posted by: sarah on: May 15, 2010
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For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you’re familiar with my complaints about my laptop. Now that things appear to be working fairly well, I’ll tell my story. From One ASUS to Another Back in the middle of March, I came home one night to find my laptop dead. My 3 year old [...]
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