While reading Mark Seemann's book and after watching Jeremy Clark's course on dependency injection, I was ready to introduce it in Paskala. This enthusiasm turned into confusion, oh, about halfway into the project. I had some ideas about what to do (and admit that I could very well be doing it wrong today), but wasn't quite sure how to…
Our franchise savior has arrived!
...Said nobody in reaction to this announcement. Possibly ever in the history of the NFL. Signing Josh McCown for three years is a bit of a head scratcher (even in the NFL, where contracts aren't guaranteed.) There's not a lot to recommend him over Brian Hoyer. Take a look at the stats: Year Age Tm Pos…
Off To Tampa
I am going to be in Tampa this weekend, presenting at SQL Saturday #371. My talk is entitled APPLY Yourself and it's one I've given a few times recently, so I'm comfortable with the theme and timing, and it should be a good one.
Pluralsight Review: Dependency Injection On-Ramp
While reading Mark Seemann's book on the topic, I decided to watch Jeremy Clark's series on dependency injection. I think that the combination of these two resources helped me understand dependency injection a lot better. Clark starts off with a few sections using "poor man's DI" to show us dependency injection in the context (primarily) of a WPF…
Early Travel To Tampa
My original plan was to travel tomorrow morning to Tampa for SQL Saturday. Nature, apparently, has something else to say about it. The flight I originally had booked has been cancelled due to the threat of 8 inches of snow. Fortunately, I changed the flight this morning to go out tonight, before snow hits Raleigh-Durham.…
You guys won’t have B. J. Upton to kick around anymore!
The hilarity of players randomly changing their names for no reason never gets old. Enter the Centerfielder Formerly Known as B. J. Upton. You are now legally required to call him Melvin Upton, Jr. I don't know how this will help the vortex of suck that is his bat, but I have a suspicion. Mevin Upon…
Unacceptable
SQL injection vulnerabilities were up in 2014. Sounds like a bunch of product managers need to buy copies of Tribal SQL and read the SQL injection chapter. Seriously, SQL injection should have died a decade ago and my presentation on the topic should simply have historical value. On the Anthem breach, Chris Bell is fed up…
Pluralsight Review: Play By Play: Azure Deployment With Scott Hanselman
My first Play By Play was a doozy. In this one, Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman move the This Developer's Life podcast site to Azure. I was particularly interested in this because I had just started using Azure myself, so I wanted to see what they did. Although the nature of this move was different than…
What I’m Reading: Code Simplicity
I just finished up Max Kanat-Alexander's Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software. I'm having a difficult time reviewing this book for a couple of reasons. I liked the concept, the contextual stories (particularly with respect to Bugzilla), and some of the ideas. Something that struck me as very interesting is the idea that development effort…
New changes to game pacing… good for baseball?
It's official, the MLB committee about game pacing has spoken. All of the changes seem very reasonable and relatively easy to enforce. Anything that makes baseball more enjoyable is good for me.
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 