SBC DotNet Weblog

I took the Geek Test and scored as a 'Super Geek'. I was thinking what would have been my scores several years ago when I worked here and here. I think I have peaked as a geek.

Notebooks outsell desktops for the first time in U.S. Also, unit sales of flat-screen LCD monitors surpassed the sales of tube-based CRTs for the first time.

Free book chapter - Mastering Regular Expressions - Ch 9 (.NET). Timely and a $aver...

I recall a C/C++ project at a major client-site over a decade ago, the tech team leader insisted on compiling with the highest warning level. This would ferret out inconsistencies and mitigate bugs. He really went wild when he deployed Gimpel Software's PC-Lint for C/C++ and peer-review sessions were brutal. 'Lint' was a seperate tool in the old UNIX boxes that checked for language-only anamolies or hinted at it.

There is an interesting unofficial survey showing the preference of C# over VB.NET in taking the MCAD/MCSD Certification exams. The result is surprising.

I spent the day, yesterday at the 802.11 Planet Expo (Wireless tech) in Boston. MS was there with some interesting demo for embedded tech devices.