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Curly Brace Placement

I've been writing code with curly braces for a dozen years or so, starting with C++ in college, then JavaScript for many, many years, and for the last few years, C#. In all that time, I have been a fan of putting the opening curly brace on the same line as the declaration or control statement...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-06-2008
GiveCamp MKE

I'm very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE . In fact, it's one of the first GiveCamps anywhere. "What's a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-05-2008
TimeSnapper

I've been using the free version of TimeSnapper off and on for some time now, but pretty regularly over the last few weeks since I started my new job. I'm doing billable work again, and am notoriously bad at getting my time entered. TimeSnapper helps by taking screenshots at some...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-13-2008
.NET Micro Framework

Just got a book in the mail from Amazon: Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework . It was only about $6 from the "Used and New" section of alternate sellers. An upcoming project at work is currently planned for Compact Framework, but, if my limited understanding is...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 04-17-2008
I Was Wondering When This Would Happen

Silverlight 1.1 becomes Silverlight 2.0 . (Thanks for the heads up , Dave.) Now I just have to find a way to get to Mix '08 next year.

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 11-29-2007
Issue Tracking and Help Desk

What software do you use for issue tracking (feature requests, bugs, etc.) and help desk? I'm looking for something here at work. Has anyone used Axosoft OnTime ? I don't want something hosted as a service (I want to install it here). Also, I don't want something that costs a fortune, but...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-03-2007
Microsoft To Make .NET Framework Source Code Available

Dave Bost just e-mailed and posted about this -- Microsoft is making the source code to the .NET Framework available. From Scott Guthrie's blog : We'll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-03-2007
Sunday Afternoon Reading

Work has been killing me lately (the last several months), but things are starting to calm down and I think I only worked about 45-50 hours last week. I spent yesterday with the family at the zoo. Charlie has been to the zoo more times in her 12 months of life than I had been in the 31 years before she...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 09-30-2007
New Tool: Folder Finder

I'm on a roll here with the little utilities... My dad called the other day as he was leaving his office (in California). Due to the nature of his business and the way their network is setup, he and his team work with a large number of folders on a network share. Each of these folders contains information...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-31-2007
Interop Issue With Winsock

Error: Method '~' of object '~' failed So yesterday at work , I was working with a sample app from one of our product vendors. The app was a VB6 Windows EXE showing how to interact with their equipment using sockets -- Winsock. Since I'm under some pretty heavy time constraints, I...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-25-2007

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