From Jeff Atwood's other blog.......this drummer is totally nuts.....

Quoted: If you thought the Endless Setlist’s 58 song set was tough, how about a 235 song set?

Tom Chick conducted a great interview with Sean Feica, a Rock Band drummer who played all 235 songs currently available for Rock Band in one marathon 26 and a half hour jam session.

On expert, of course. He called it The Drum Day From Hell.

Dunno if you still use hulu a lot, but i've been looking for a nice stand alone hulu player.

This one works for mac and pc, seems to have a nice look and feel to boot.

Check out the screenshots on this page for more details.....

Good stuff, someone at work brought this up....

A fun little ready....

Dunno if you subscribe to the daily wtf, but i like some of their articles now and again

Really great article about why tablets are just plan bad.....

Some really interesting points, especially the quote I have below.

What are your thoughts?

Quoted: You can make the reality of this simple business fact plain by pointing out how the deciding factor between two competing products is often not quality. Betamax anyone? Rolls-Royce? Sun Microsystems?

Good read

Quoted: In almost every industry, companies find reason to dislike their customer base. And although it's no different in the technology space, it's as if cell phone carriers and ISPs aren't afraid of hiding it. After all, if these companies really liked us, wouldn't they realize that privacy is a major concern and we don't like being bogged down by onerous contracts?

Really interesting article.....

Code folding with regions is something I sometimes take advantage of.

Why? well, as one of jeff's reasons it's bad, it's usually b/c it's used to mask excessive length in really long files. So, i don't use it all the time.

but, i must say, comments in general really, REALLY bother me. You have this beautiful clean code, and then suddenly, its fucking massively bloated.

Take the XML style comments in visual studio at the top of the sealed class called NativeError. So, when you start typing out NativeError in an editor, intellisense has all that info and puts in the yellow information "title thing".

Having that info when implementing is great, however, when implementing for every public method, it can double or triple the amount of code in the file....

Yes, it can be "code collapsed", but that's only after you tell it to, and even then, you have this ugly line of code above each method and property that just doesn't make sense.

Where's the line between "hiding bad code" and just creating a black box. I don't want to think about every line of code I've ever written.

However, sometimes it's very convenient to slap a region around some messy code, that works, but i somehow wish it was cleaner. But sometimes, I think theres no good way of getting around the mess.

Really great article

Quoted: What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.