Here is an interesting CodeProject article dealing with .NET regular expressions that also includes information about a nice Regex utility application.
I learned the concept of regular expressions from my Computer Science courses in college, so I understand the value of them when validating some sort of input. But I’m sorry to say I’ve never taken the time to learn how to use regular expressions in .NET.
Is anybody else registered for the Waterfall ’06 Conference in early April? It sounds like it’s going to be the venue for developers looking to get in on the latest trend. And Tyra Banks is booked as a speaker too!
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Ok, this was the funniest frickin’ thing I’ve read in a while now. If you’re not in software development, you will miss the joke completely. And, for that, I apologize. Actually, I don’t. You’re just not cool. Get over it.
Move over music, with your crazy rhythms and sassy lyrics. I’ve been bit by the Podcast bug.
Ok, a little backstory. I got an iPod Nano for Christmas and it has probably been my most-used present thus far. And I’ve been using iTunes as a medium to interact with, and load songs to, my iPod. I had never used iTunes before, so it was a little bit of effort to warm up to it. But now, I’m getting the hang of using it as a way to load up my iPod with music.
Anyway, I met up with an old friend last weekend, who brought me up to speed on Podcasts. Since then, I’ve been scouring the internet for ’em. I really like TWiT – which talks about the latest buzz words in the tech industry. I also have a handful of others loaded in my iPod, waiting for a listen. But nothing I want to promote yet in case they just plain suck.
I got two technical books this Christmas dealing with Agile development: Craig Larman’s Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide and Scott Ambler’s Agile Database Techniques. Although I haven’t sat down to read them cover-to-cover, I think that the subject material they cover is quite useful, especially if you are looking at getting into Agile software development, or would like to just know what it is.
One thing I noticed is that some of Ambler’s chapter content is much the same as his articles posted freely on his web site. So, if you’re hesitant to buy Ambler’s book, look through some of his vast collection of writings and see what he has to say for yourself.
I haven’t had anything worth mentioning for a while now, mostly because I haven’t had much going on worth mentioning. Yes, I’m super busy at work and, yes, I am enjoying it (as much as one can enjoy work), but that leaves little time for other things in life. At least for now.
So, I’m shifting focus of this blog (after only a few short posts…) to topics that surround my work. Maybe I’ll have more to write about now that I’ve defined a scope of topics with which to write.
We’ll see how this goes.
On October 19th, my Ruby was taken from me. She was taken from me by an old man who was unfamiliar with the “right of way” rule of driving. He was also apparently unfamiliar with the “Don’t Pull Out in Front of Someone” rule, but that’s a common sense rule that is not required to pass a driving exam, so I’ll forgive that one…
Anyway, it’s been almost eight weeks since my car has been in the shop, and I was supposed to get it yesterday. But the auto-body shop was slow-going with a few things so it looks like I’ll be getting it back sometime in the middle of next week.
It’s sad really. I barely even remember what my car feels like to drive. It will have been in the auto shop for about the same amount of time that I owned it between driving off the lot and getting hit. Somehow, that just doesn’t seem right…