Jeff Makes Software

Every once in awhile when you're tooling about .NET v2, you come across something that you wish you had in the previous versions. Today, that's the TcpClient.Available property. It returns an int that cleverly enough tells you how many bytes are available to read from the network stream. It helps shave down a couple of lines required to read a stream.

Inspired by a comment left by Jerry Pisk, I find it disturbing that people can get all worked up over the fact that Microsoft is releasing tools (or I should say, has released tools for years) that cater to less skilled developers. Jerry's comments about "programmer wannabes" reek of developer snobbery.

One of the things I do “on the side” is compress video for delivery on the Web. Given my television background B.P. (before programming), it seemed like a natural fit to get into it.

Every once in awhile I'll pop over to Slashdot to see what the peeps have to say about something newsworthy. At the very least you can find some Gates-hating to laugh at. I can't for the life of me figure out the structure of their comment system (I am, after all, a mindless drone .NET developer), but I found some choice comments.

Let me start by saying it's great to see the excitement bubbling out of Microsoft from the various teams involved with the new Express products. As a customer, I think you can only feel good about the pride that 'Softies are putting into these new bits. After using the pre-beta builds of VS 2005 now for about three or four months, I was already impressed.

Here's today's crazy viewstate, brought to you by the GotDotNet.com home page!

It sure is fun to be a .NET developer. It's fun to be right from time to time as well.

I love how someone in the programming community comes up with a word, then before you know it, the word is used more frequently than “the.”