“Optimize your code for maintainability before optimizing for performance.” – Matthew Cochran, Microsoft MVP
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I’ve recently started working with Outlook Redemption, an excellent alternative to direct MAPI calls. Some of the other devs on my team wrote some libraries that use it, complete with unit tests. All the code and unit tests run fine on my machine (VS2008, 64-bit Windows). /”\ → Read More: The Visual Studio hosting process and 64-bit Windows From the Wall Street Journal Online, Oct 30 2009: White House Data Shows 650,000 Jobs From Stimulus:
I’m not an economist or a mathematician or a politician, but I can do basic math: $160 billion divided by 640,329 equals $249,871.55 per job created or saved. As a comparison: the median full-time salary for a U.S. worker was $27,756 in 2005 (source). Why does it cost $250,000 to create or save a job in a market where the average worker makes under $30,000? Can someone explain to me . . . → Read More: Bad government: Spending $250,000 to create or save one job This is the second in a series of posts about my past life as an amateur musician. Other posts include A brief history of an amateur musician, Part I: The Early Years, and A brief history of an amateur musician, Part III: Assorted Recordings and Dirt Man’s King. The musical experiment that was Overnight Delivery would survive no longer than two rehearsal sessions. From its shattered dreams would arise a new band: Kültürkampf(footnote 1). The driving force behind Kulturkampf was the same two behind Overnight Delivery: drummer Scott (“Scotty Stapes”) and bassist Vito (“Vito Smegma”). I tagged along on guitar (“Brian Kampf”), having nothing much else to do with my time. John was replaced on vocals with Mike (“Mike Edge”), a decent musician in his own right who had a coarse singing style that fit our music well. Kulturkampf gained quite a following of fans who . . . → Read More: A brief history of an amateur musician, Part II: The Hardcore Years and Kulturkampf While scanning Google News, I saw an article that mentioned the re-launched Republican National Committee web site, gop.com, and decided to take a look at it. The verdict, in short: if they are the party of new ideas, they are also the party that makes the same old stupid mistakes on their web sites. First, let’s look at the problems. Problem #1: A database error message is my first experience. Granted, the site is probably getting hammered by all the excited young Republicans, but that’s still no excuse for getting the following message on my first request: “Database Error: Unable to connect to your database. Your database appears to be turned off or the database connection settings in your config file are not correct. Please contact your hosting provider if the problem persists.” Come on, is it that hard to write a friendly . . . → Read More: What’s broken in the new Republican web site, gop.com? Nearly everything! |
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