devinsblog http://devinsblog.com a tech journal Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:12:03 +0000 en hourly 1 The absolute best way to improve your coding skills! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/p2_ZigmCHvI/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/the-absolute-best-way-to-improve-your-coding-skills/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:08:41 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1827

The absolute best way to improve your coding skills is to read the absolute best advanced MVVM book EVAR!

If you’re programming WPF or Silverlight, don’t pass up the opportunity to give Advanced MVVM a read. Written by one of the best WPF developers in the known universe, it’s sure to be useful and worth the mere pennies that he’s charging for this gem.


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/the-absolute-best-way-to-improve-your-coding-skills/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/the-absolute-best-way-to-improve-your-coding-skills/ AT&T brings back performance just in time for the iPad http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/5hmYhzcvcNE/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/att-brings-back-performance-just-in-time-for-the-ipad/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:58:09 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1825 So for the iPad: to 3G, or not to 3G. That is the question.

$15 for 250Mb, $30 for unlimited.


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]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/15/windows-mobile-7-announced/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/15/windows-mobile-7-announced/ Happy Friday! Here are a couple funny videos I saw this week http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/ngXrR_VyMlM/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:17:02 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1815
I love the Intel commercials! Pretty funny, especially from an engineers standpoint. [thanks Teresa!]

Possibly NSFW! Drops an F bomb, but hey, so do people at work…

[Thanks Karim!]


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/05/happy-friday-here-are-a-couple-funny-videos-i-saw-this-week/ How to deal with data loss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/RtnhPQref5k/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/how-to-deal-with-data-loss/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:21:36 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1773 I bought my friend a 1 terabyte external hard drive for Christmas so he could back up all his stuff.  I invited him over last week so I could get some of his files off the hard drive.

Before I copied it however, I was going to remove all the .DS files from his file system (he uses with his Mac) so that there wouldn’t be any copy issues with our FAT hard drives (I have Finder show all the hidden files so it becomes an issue).  So I ran the command in Terminal to remove the .DS files.  Done.

Then I got to the file transfer and everything seemed to work great… except.. it went REALLY fast.  I copied over his whole folder structure in seconds.  That can’t be right.  So I started opening up the folders to make sure the files were there…

And we both slowly started coming to the realization that I just deleted everything on his drive.  All 350 GB of it.

OOPS!

I went back and checked the command that I used in Terminal and noticed that I missed the “-name” part of the command.  Damn.

How ironic that I buy him a hard drive for him to back up all his stuff on, then I invite him over and delete all of it!

I bought him dinner.  That’s how you deal with data loss.  Sorry man.


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/how-to-deal-with-data-loss/feed/ 1 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/how-to-deal-with-data-loss/ Take that Engadget trolls! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/vCMFQ4UIaZE/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/take-that-engadget-trolls/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:08:48 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1809 Comments have gotten so heated lately (probably because of the iPad, Mac vs Windows wars) that Engadget had to shut down comments on their blog for a while.

“What is normally a charged — but fun — environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations… and that’s just not acceptable. Some of you out there in the world of anonymous grandstanding have gotten the impression that you run the place, but that’s simply not the case.”

Goooo Engadget! [via Jamey]


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/take-that-engadget-trolls/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/take-that-engadget-trolls/ I call BS http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/3tbS_ui2Y5k/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/i-call-bs/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:15:17 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1806

the information we’re hearing is that Apple is thinking much larger for another version of the product, maybe all the way up to the 15.4″ size that it currently uses for one version of the MacBook Pro. If you think that would be way too big for an iPad, we’re also hearing that this other tablet would be quite a bit different from the one revealed last week. Namely, it could run a version of OS X much closer to the traditional version that runs on Macs.

Seems weird that they would come out with a tablet that runs OS X.  Unless the OS was radically different, I don’t see them slapping multitouch on Snow Leopard (like Microsoft has done with Windows 7).  Traditional Desktop OS’s have never been popular on a tablet device.

I think it’s very possible in the near future to see larger applications of multitouch capability from Apple, but not running on traditional OS X.


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/i-call-bs/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/i-call-bs/ Umm… that’s an interesting analogy… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/-bFUYGQYqsw/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/umm-thats-an-interesting-analogy/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:52:25 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1804 Syrup on a burger?  I’ll pass.  Oh yea, and I agree that Windows 7 is not an operating system built for multitouch.


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/umm-thats-an-interesting-analogy/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/umm-thats-an-interesting-analogy/ On the other side of the fence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/VB7NC3bQ3Nk/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/on-the-other-side-of-the-fence/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:27:03 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1801 It’s funny to hear what people say when they’re completely on the other side of the fence.  All the speculation was saying $800 dollars, and we were pleasantly surprised to see a cheaper price.  So what’s this guy smoking?

“If all of this isn’t enough to cause the iPad to fail then the price will certainly put everybody else off.  With a starting price tag of $500 it’s simply too expensive…”

Cocaine is one helluva drug…


]]> http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/on-the-other-side-of-the-fence/feed/ 0 http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/on-the-other-side-of-the-fence/ Gunna have to go with Gruber on this one http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devinsblogfeed/~3/R8xFjmDzAJE/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/02/gunna-have-to-go-with-gruber-on-this-one/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:22:21 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1797 Just saw Jilion’s HTML 5 video player.  To quote John Gruber on this one: “This is so fucking great.”


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