So a coworker decided it would be a good idea to hide both my rental keys and my car keys the Friday before Labor Day.  Being the good little mindless drone I was, I stayed late but didn’t realize my keys were gone until 9PM.  Now I’m all for pranks and someone getting me good but keys, wallets, purses are off limits since that person thinks someone stole the keys / wallet / purse. Needless to say, I was irked and said on twitter “the prank wars, started they have”.  And this weekend, I got my revenge.  Just remember,...

A lot has happened in the past month.  The biggest is I’ll be leaving a great job and fun city to a different position within Microsoft.  I’ve joined the Channel9 (http://channel9.msdn.com) team and will be regaining some of my developer street credit.  I’ll also be part online personality and have Coding4Fun under my wing too.  I’ll be borrowing Max Zuckerman’s old office too :-) Due to this new spot, I’ll also be moving to Seattle too!  I have some fun articles prepped up for Coding4Fun and as always, my work progress is typically documented on here if I’m...

So as expected, Alfred responded to my first post on why I think c# is better.  As always, I will point out I openly respect people’s opinion for programming languages and that each language has excellent uses for different things. So with the disclaimer out of the way so I won’t have an angry mob attacking me, on to why I love c# so much. Alfred brought up the need for the semi colon to terminate a line.  I think this the best idea ever.  We do it in our written, why is it such a...

Disclaimer:  I respect everyone’s right to use their own programming language.  I also respect the accomplishments of certain languages and realize not one language can suite all the needs in the world.  That is why we have functional languages and SQL and so forth.  This is my opinion and my opinion only. Sir Alfred has challenged me to a nerd off. On twitter, (http://twitter.com/crutkas), I smarted off about my love for C style languages and my coworker, Alfred Thompson(http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/), responded in his always well thought out, respectful manner disagreeing with me. Long story short, I ran into a...

So yeah, I drank the Kool-Aid (It is blueberry flavored).  Performance reviews are coming up and I have to do my self-evaluation.  It got me thinking about working in general about stuff and how I’ve actually become a bigger fanboy of Microsoft than I was before I started working here. The culture is shockingly open.  I’ve had the chance to be on Channel 9 multiple times, most recently on This Week on Channel 9 and talk about what has been going on.  Rory Blyth gave me the first taste of it and I have to say I do love...

I've been working on an application for an upcoming project that uses Twitter.  I've never seen something that everyone loves fail so regularly.  I'm smashing my head since I can't do proper debugging while people are like "Oh twitter, you're down again." and they slap their knee. I like twitter, the idea is decent despite what some people may say.  It gives me a place to rant that isn't my blog which has a very targeted outline.  I get to make statements like "Why do people think it is OK for google to have applications for 4+ yrs in...

getting this sucker tuned in is far harder than I could have ever thought.  I've smashed my poor fingers three times already.  I use the term smashed since the skateboard with batteries isn't exactly feather weight.

Code still needs tweaking and tons of improvements but finally I can go to sleep before 4am!

I just spent 2 hours debugging source code on why my motor controller wasn't responding to my source code.  My butt and other tidbits are a bit cold. Here is something I find messed up.  I'm not sure if it is literally .Net's fault or the speed controllers.com.WriteLine(temp + string.Format("{0:X2}", PowerRating)); Now that LOOKS like a new line SHOULD be appended on, right?  I mean, WriteLine, it to me implies, IT WILL write a line.  There is Write too. Nope.  Doing this worked.com.WriteLine(temp + string.Format("{0:X2}", PowerRating) + Environment.NewLine); FYI:  the variable temp is a combination of ! and a "A" or "a", "B"...

The c# version has been updated to be Silverlight 2.0 friendly. A few tweaks but nothing major. The source code can be directly downloaded here or head over to Peace Love Code for a full viewing. To view the 2.0 application in action, you can head over to the old post too.