http://www.geekwithopinions.com Rambling opinions of a professional geek. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:51:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Windows 7 is due out by the end of this year. Visual Studio 2010 is due out next year. Does this all sound a bit familiar? It should because there was a similar situation with the release of Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008. I have always liked going to ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/06/01/windows-7-and-visual-studio-2010-release-events/ I decided to try out Google Analytics over the weekend. My web host's web stats leave something to be desired. Since Google already knows everything about me and my site already, I figure it was a safe things to do. With a WordPress blog, it is very easy to set ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/05/18/google-analytics-and-spammers/ So I was getting my oil changed today. While I waited I took advantage of the free WiFi. I had to download Adobe Reader because of the new install of Windows 7. Below is a screenshot of one of the new features of the task bar. It appears applications can ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/05/16/windows-7ie8-download-feature/ The Problem: What to do with all those aging home videos that are on VHS (or other analog) format? The Answer: Buy some new toys and convert the analog video to something modern like DVDs! My parents, like many, bought a home video camera in the late 80s. Since then my family ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/05/10/vhs-to-dvd-project/ Neal Ford has a series of post about SOA and how it is being sold to developers. While the post had some pretty good points on the topic, He talks about something he calls the Rubick's Cubicle anti-pattern. The pattern as stated from the post is: If the presented problem isn't ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/04/13/more-complexity-i-need-more-complexity/ Stack Overflow is a Q&A wiki site for programmers. People can post questions, answer questions, and search for questions. Question and Answers get voted up or down based on what the community thinks of them. As people ask and answer questions, karma is gained. As karma is gained by a ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/03/29/stack-overflow-is-programmer-crack/ First off some administrative business. I was planning on doing a weekly post about stuff I learned this week. However on my first week I decided that was not such a good idea. With the items I had lined up to talk about, I would have to have written a ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/03/27/is-your-use-fair/ using System; class HelloWorld { public static int Main(String[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!"); } } Hello! Yes I am yet another person with yet another blog. I have gained much knowledge during my life as a professional geek ... http://www.geekwithopinions.com/2009/03/22/hello-world/