Steve Maine has another excellent post online about estimation models, using “perfect engineering” (PE) hours as the baseline. A PE hour is what you have when you are in the zone, with no outside d...

This service can generate an easy-to-read XHTML documentation from an XSD schema. Features include: links that allow you to jump to the referenced schema components sample XML of schema comp...

“In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to work in a world that no longer exists.” Chuck Allison quoting Eric Hoffer in C/C++ User...

A few weeks ago, Vince posted his egg nog drink recipe. Keeping with that, I wanted to post my favorite Christmas recipe. Every year, I make 3 to 8 of these mint chocolate cheesecakes for family a...

Recently, I had a need for a label to rotate through text, showing each item for a specific amount of time. Surprisingly enough, this was not very hard to create. I’m posting the code here in hope...

Howard Rheingold asks “why aren’t Americans using phone texting?” [The Scobleizer Weblog] I believe that the preliminary reason why people are having such a hard time adopting this is that t...

Scoble had an interesting post yesterday about group blogs such as PDC Blogs, .NET Weblogs and Longhorn Blogs. I completely understand where he’s coming from. I, too, have thought about moving my ...

I just finished installing Sean Voisen’s MTCodeBeautifier to colorize the code on this site. MTCodeBeautifier is a MovableType plugin uses the Beautifier Perl scripts behind the scenes. Out of the...

Robert McLaws posts about how to disable the simple sharing dialog in Windows XP. Tools Folder Options View Uncheck “Use Simple Sharing” This has been dr...

This is one of the funnier things I’ve seen in a while. Comments on whether or not the video is real have turned into an interesting discussion at work. I’m anxious to hear your thoughts.