What I cannot create, I do not understand
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Jeff Atwood blogged about a problem he is having with HTML sanitization on [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/ . The argument that Dare Obasanjo and Jon Galloway were trying to make to Jeff is that it doesn’t make sense to re-invent the wheel. People have solved this problem before and their code is available for re-use. Jeff’s argument is that he’s a professional developer and he should be able to solve this problem. He punctuates his argument with a quote from Richard Feynman, “what I cannot create, I do not understand.…
It must be nice to be an MVP (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Vista)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
A couple weeks ago a Microsoft MVP screamed at the top of his blog that he’d give Vista 2 more weeks and then he’d leave for the murky waters of XP forever. Well some folks at Microsoft jumped onto the case and figured out the problem . I have co-workers and friends and acquaintances and people that I probably won’t ever talk to again tell me that they hate Vista so much that they’ll never use it.…