Jeff Makes Software

I'm absolutely thrilled with the way Visual Studio 2005 leaves my HTML the way I want it. It's a fabulous tool and it's about damn time that someone in Redmond realized that we know better than the machine how to write and format our code!

You learn something every day...

If you're a TechTV fan you know that Comcast bought the network to combine it with their own G4 network, creating the combined G4-TechTV. In the process, they cut a lot of the TechTV shows and laid-off a ton of people at the San Francisco location. Those that survived have to move to L.A.

I need to vent. I participate in a couple of forums where I'm glad to help people out to solve their coding problems. However, it annoys the crap out of me that people will ask “how do you” or “do you know of any code that does” whatever. Honestly, the first thing I do when I see a question like that is hit Google, and more often than not, I find something right away.

Now that I'm working for me (have I mentioned that lately? ;)), I'm going to try and devote more attention to uber:ASP.Net. I had such good intentions for that site before I went back to work for The Man in January, but quickly slacked off due to a lack of time.

Yeah, Mac fan in the body of a .NET developer, sure, but Apple keeps making some really cool stuff.

I cracked open the First Look book for the first time since I actually had the bits (three builds later, actually). I was surprised to see that the MembershipProvider was an interface at press time, and not an abstract class as it is now. I wonder what the reason for this is?

Well, I'm wrapping up two weeks on my own after quitting my job to write my book, and take in the concept of independence while I wonder how I might work for myself permanently. I've got about four months before I evaluate if I'll keep this up, and so far, so good.