shawn on September 2nd, 2008

Hello World, Do you ever have that not-so-fresh feeling?  I am not talking about the feminine cleansing products but rather a stale and tiresome feeling towards your Desktop.  Well, if you are like me then every now and then you need to re-think your desktop setup and go for something fresh. I have been a [...]

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Tim on August 5th, 2008

I might be aging myself a little here, but I’m sure we all remember the old Folgers commercials where the premium coffee is switched with the much maligned Folgers instant. Microsoft did something similar recently in San Francisco to some folks who held a negative view of Windows Vista. They asked 140 non-Vista consumers to [...]

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Tim on February 14th, 2008

On a personal note, my wife gave birth to our first child Sunday morning at 2:06 am. She’s a beautiful 8lb 9oz 22in long baby girl! The posts to the ScarTech blog might few and far between in the next few weeks while I’m showering love on my little girl.

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Tim on December 14th, 2007

Ok. In light of the release of the Mitchell Report, and in the interest of full disclosure I have an important confession to make. I’m guilty of using code enhancing substances: caffeine, sugar, and ibuprofen. There I’ve said it. It’s off my chest now. I’m not proud of it, but it needed to be said. [...]

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Tim on November 30th, 2007

The other day I read a blog post about the topic of whether developers should where headphones while writing code. I say a resounding yes! Sometimes it’s a necessity. I don’t have a private office, so headphones offer an easy way to block out the outside noises from the cube farm. I sit right next to the [...]

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Tim on November 29th, 2007

That’s right. Wide is in this season. Fortunately I’m not talking about waist sizes. I’m referring to display size. Ever since I bought my new notebook and finally got a larger monitor at work, I’ve become a die-hard fan of wide-screen monitors. I’ve been completely spoiled by WSXGA+ (1680×1050). I can’t believe I was even able to use [...]

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Tim on November 25th, 2007

When we last left our intrepid developer he was attending a local RA (Refactors Anonymous) meeting. Let’s see what’s happening this week:  Me: “Hello everyone. My name is Tim.” Group: “Hi Tim!” Me: “I write software.” Group: “So do we!” Me: “I’ve been writing software for over 6 years now.” Group: “That’s great Tim!” Me: “And [...]

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Tim on November 5th, 2007

Ryan Naraine of ComputerWorld compiled a list of the top 10 web annoyances. I know this is too easy, but my number one web annoyance is top 10 lists. I just did a quick google search for top 10 lists, and I got back 1.5 million results. It’s like everyone is taking blogging advise from Casey Kasem. So [...]

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Tim on November 3rd, 2007

Ah yes. It’s that time of year again. Daylight Saving Time is ending, and I’ve got to VPN into work to make sure the time change goes off without a hitch tonight at 2:00 am. Or is it 1:00 am? I never remember. Anyway, I’m not responsible for some old legacy system. It’s several Windows [...]

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Tim on October 3rd, 2007

While reading Jeff Atwood’s excellent Coding Horror blog entry today about branching and source control I had a flashback to my childhood reading Marvel comics. He mentioned the What If series, and it just got me thinking of other what if tech scenarios. The first what if I want to discuss is the iPhone. What [...]

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