Dan McKinley : December 2004

Some stuff, you just can't make up

posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:38 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Buchanon refers to himself as "Showtime," and arrived at training camp in 2003 as a second-year pro in a limousine and wearing a fancy pajama suit. Full story is here. Read More

Six Reasons I Will Never Read The Da Vinci Code

posted Monday, December 27, 2004 5:58 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

In no particular order. I’m sure I could think of more than six, but it’s a round number. People seem to get worked up about it. Some tend to be ambiguous, trying to take credit for the ideas contained within it in an attempt to Read More

FxCop and Guidelines

posted Monday, December 27, 2004 1:54 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Brad Abram’s Designing Good Libraries post inspired me to find out if some of the trickier rules mentioned are already caught by FxCop. Obviously many of the casing and naming guidelines are covered. This code: private static string[] Read More

ESPN’s Sunday Night Football crew makes me want to club a baby harp seal to death.

posted Sunday, December 26, 2004 8:56 PM by mcfunley with 7 Comments

Mike “Not getting back onto a network broadcast this century” Patrick just said, and I quote, “We have got a case of the giggles.” I prefer that my bizarre TV ticklefights involve Terry Bradshaw whenever possible, thank you. Paul Maguire appears Read More

Festivus Revelers Persecuted in Small Town

posted Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:02 AM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

In Bartow, Florida. The display, a reference to the fake holiday featured on an episode of the television sitcom, did not include the totem of Festivus — a bare aluminum pole instead of a tree. Key rituals of Festivus include accusing others Read More

New Category and a New Article

posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:09 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I've added a category for “books.“ I read a lot and hopefully having this will give me some motivation to read more carefully and write some commentaries. To start it out, I've written a critique of a thoroughly misguided and ordinary book Read More

Further proof that most people lack attention to detail

posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:12 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

This is a really, really excellent comment: So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by Read More

Fear and Loathing in Middle America

posted Monday, December 20, 2004 5:43 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Briefly, between Pittsburgh International and my house, my mother was listening to the Oliver North radio show. A breathless woman called in to share this nugget with the world: We were watching [National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation] last night, Read More

Visual Basic Case Insensitivity

posted Monday, December 13, 2004 6:38 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Here's something that bit us today. Somehow, our big solution has been tricked into thinking that the System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind method is actually “Databind” (with a small “b”). It became impossible to type “DataBind” Read More

Reason one, insanity two billion

posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:20 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

It is unbelievably refreshing to see a Reuter's story such as this one about James Randi on the Yahoo front page. There's not even a lame and fallacious rebuttal by Gary Schwartz to be found in it. Read More

A Hypothetical Interview with D. Oscar McKinley

posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:23 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

EW: What do you think is the biggest problem facing America today? OM: Well Mitch, I don't think nearly enough people are complaining about the nonexistent trend towards secularism. When that happens, I really start to worry. I don’t worry Read More

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