- Posted by Ian Suttle on May 16, 2009
- Filed under General
CNN.com has an article today called Welcome to the 'weisure' lifestyle. It's about the balance between work and life (leisure in the article)... or the lack thereof more precisely. It's not that people are becoming increasingly chained to their desk at the office but more of their desk i...
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on May 3, 2009
- Filed under Electronics | General
This is an exciting moment for me. I've been doing software dev for over a decade and I've never ventured in to the electronics aspects of assembly. Sure I've put my own computers together but that became old hat in the late 90s. Today I broke out of my comfort zone and I replaced a capacitor on the main board of my Panasonic DVP642 DVD player..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on February 21, 2009
- Filed under .NET 3.5 | ASP.Net MVC
This post details an ASP.NET MVC Action Filter to assist with localized site development. If you've got or want a site which supports multiple cultures using ASP.NET MVC localization you need to be familiar with setting CultureInfo values for the current thread and UI. The .NET Framework uses this info to do a few key things. First, if you're using resource files the framework knows which to pick up because the resource file name specifies the culture. Secondly the culture is used as a formatter argument for various methods such as ToString()..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on February 9, 2009
- Filed under General | Process
Programmers are paid to create, fix, and innovate. How you go about these tasks comes in two flavors - the quick and dirty method or doing it right. The typical reaction of a programmer is to strike down the quick and dirty route with eyeball laser beams because they want to have the time to do it right. Who can blame them? Nobody wants to write code they're not going to be proud of..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on January 6, 2009
- Filed under Source Control
Supporting multiple version of source code can be tricky. Here's one versioning pattern you might find helpful..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on November 29, 2008
- Filed under General
IGN Entertainment is hiring .NET (C#), Java, and C++ programmers..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on November 15, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process
Something we're looking at adding to our agile tool belt is estimating stories using story points. If you're not familiar with story points think of them as an estimation using a relative level of effort/complexity..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on October 5, 2008
- Filed under General
I've heard of Hulu, but until now I hadn't checked it out. This TV season started a few weeks ago and I've already had DVR mishaps with the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes series and I needed a way to get caught up. Hulu allowed me to search for the episodes I've misse...
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on September 28, 2008
- Filed under General
Including charts in your applications often adds value and polish. If you don't have a charting package in your tool belt choosing one can be both confusing and expensive. If you're in this boat check out Google Charts, which offers free charting with lots of options. And by &quo...
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on August 9, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process
Early on I recognized one piece of criteria critical to us succeeding in bringing Scrum to IGN - everyone had to buy in. This is a change for us and as has been drilled into our noggins for years, most people don't like change. The idea isn't to change for the sake of change of course, but to continually improve our team, processes, communication, and company. I'm sure most people can buy in to that one so we had to show how the change being proposed would accomplish these goals..
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