Monthly Archives: October 2005

Lost my motivation

31 Oct 2005
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and this post from Slacker Manager couldn’t have come at a better time:
Motivation Assasination


Brendon says: “What I know is that the motivation sniper hides in the shadowy corners of my psyche, taking aim at my motivation to move ahead on projects big and small. “


I’ve been in this funk for the past few weeks.

Link dump for Wednesday, October 26, 2005

26 Oct 2005
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The cost of leaving your PC on.

Microsoft’s updated certifications

25 Oct 2005
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Lot’s of changes coming from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/newgen/


So….the MCSD is being replaced by the Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer cert….ok….whatever. :-\

Another year older

21 Oct 2005
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My 33rd birthday is today.


I haven’t been into work on my birthdya in years.

Contributing to Open Source projects.

20 Oct 2005
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Jason, at NoFunIntended says

What makes you a good developer.

20 Oct 2005
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Matt’s starting

Link Dump for Wednesday, October 19, 2005

19 Oct 2005
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Jakob Neilsen’s post about “Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes” has been a pretty active topic on several other blogs, including Coding Horror…Let’s see…where do I fall?


#1 – I sorta added #1 yesterday (see the About section on the right side of the blog)
#2 – no photo – maybe I’ll use the one of me behind the podium in the White House press room. :-)
#3 – sometimes my titles leave a bit to be desired
#4 – sometimes I’m guilty of not saying exactly where the links are going
#5 – Do I have any “classic hits”?

TDD – It’s the right thing to do

18 Oct 2005
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I found this interesting

Looking for Great Lakes .NET Bloggers

16 Oct 2005
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If you’re a .NET blogger in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois or Ohio, please leave a comment with a link to your blog.

Link Dump for Wednesday, October 12, 2005

12 Oct 2005
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Not much in this link dump.