Just A Programmer

Note: To skip the long journey of what lead me to figuring this out, click here to go to the howto. Recently I was asked to look at a fiddler plugin Stan, the founder of this blog, was developing. He gave me a SVN path and asked me to build it and test it. So I checked [...]

Paul Randal wrote a What three events brought you here article on his blog and asked some others in the SQL server community to do the same. I of course was not on that list. However, no one ever invited me to blog about anything before so why should I be shy now. I have decided [...]

Update: It seems that the facts presented to me in the initial bug report are not correct. I will be revising this article after the facts are settled. For now read the comments. It all started with a simple bug encountered while trying to get PHP and WCF to play nice. Before you know it I [...]

Some people have a love-hate releationship with certain pieces of software. Others, a love to hate relationship. My releationship with Eclipse is more of a respect-hate relationship. Perhaps I make that categorization, because I cannot admit a more purer dichotomy of love-hate, I’ve often described eclipse as being put together by a hippie commune of developers. [...]

I was preparing for my pre-session talk this past November at LISUG, when I determined that I needed a printf() function for jquery. To be more accurate, more accurately I needed an sprintf() implementation in javascript, and wanted to . Google lead me to a jquery plugin that has not been updated since 2007. However, sometimes [...]

In a recent blog, ESR coined an interesting phrase, high-church XML. I have identified with this term, and all of its connotations. I have expanded upon the idea and declared myself a traditionalists bishop in the church of XML ESR was trying to point out that regexes are appropriate for extracting information from html, because its [...]

Adopting an OSS product is kind of like adopting a kitten, but we shouldn't adopt stray software, we should clone it.

I am a stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser, and of course meta stackoverflow junkie. This probably comes as no surprise due to the three sites I recently launched. There are many reasons I like these three sites. First of all, I am a big fan of on-line and real life programmer interaction. Secondly, I like the model Jeff [...]

A clear article explaining why simpler is better with web service libraries.

I am an avid Reader of Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror. I usually agree with him. However, I must disagree with his hatred of Window’s XP’s continuing popularity. I don’t care. Disclaimer: I still run Windows XP at home and at work. So now that I’ve stated my prejudice, I’ll talk about a similar situation that does bother [...]

In the proud internet tradition of taking an original joke and making a cheap deraritive, I, Justin Dearing, would like to announce that I’ve launched the following domains: lmsotfy.com Let Me Stack Overflow That For You lmsftfy.com Let Me Server FaultThat For You lmsutfy.com Let Me Super UserThat For You Please enjoy playing stupid jokes on your friends.

Today I attended LIPHP. While I began attending LIPHP since I was programming in PHP at the time, I am mostly a .NET programmer these days. The fact that I have recently inherited an abandoned OSS projet written in .NET, further entrenches me as an open source .NET programmer. I was told by a fellow LIPHP [...]

This is hardly a problem specific to the open source community. This happens to webapps whenever developers have access to the production database. However, I am picking on open source productions here, because as a user I am shielded from a web apps release process unless I catch a maintance screen. For closed source products [...]