I read an article once about a lifehack for balancing your work and procrastination. I've looked high and low for the link to no avail, so sorry for the lack of deeper information. The lifehack outlined a solution for the computer-staring workers - programmers, analysts, and so on - who are faced wi... [More]

I think there exists some value in a direct mapping between your software's system roles, the functions provided to each role, and the tests one writes to verify that each type of user can perform each task with the same desired outcome. Albeit a simplistic (or trite) view of the process of creating... [More]

Made some improvements in the GUI for the Social Timeline and fixed a few bugs in the XML retrieval. Next step is to add additional provider support. I think I might use Unity for this to learn a little more about implementing IoC using it. I've been using Spring so far and love it but I'd like to t... [More]

In keeping with my addiction to working with the ASP.NET MVC framework I've come up with a little demonstration app that shows how MVC can integrate with JQuery and maybe even an additional javascript framework. This example specifically targets the SIMILE Timeline widget. I saw SIMILE a few weeks a... [More]

Seems a weird revision number, but this thing isn't anywhere close to done yet. At least I don't think so. I've changed some things around. My main aspiration for TuneTweeter wasn't to overload Twitter and drive everyone bonkers but to provide the music-addicted user access to information about the... [More]

I've been putzing around with WPF for a few months and haven't really committed myself to anything worth discussing until recently. I'm really excited about WPF now and what I can do with it, and I'm using this project to learn some more of the GUI-specific WPF stuff from which I've previously balke... [More]