This is a sample of doing streamed template processing to perform Data Binding in Silverlight. I had to edit out the description, since MS Word + WordPress was generating invalid XML (how hard can it be?) which was causing feed validation errors.
The full template processor, with the MiniCache and PullMePushYou helpers, is less than 300 [...]
Every few months, a Chinese employee will send an alarming e-mail to the thousands of Chinese employees at Microsoft, saying “I got sick at restaurant ‘X’, and they had 4 critical red health violations at their last inspection, so STAY AWAY!” These people usually mean well, but tend to shout “fire” without looking line-by-line at the health inspection [...]
Today for lunch, I decided to try Henry’s Hunan near SF MOMA. I wish I hadn’t.
Seattle doesn’t have any authentic Hunan food, and I love spicy, so I try to get Hunan food when I’m in cities that have it. San Francisco has plenty of options in Chinatown, so I assumed that this place wouldn’t [...]
This morning, my wife woke me up to tell me that some woman was talking out of my computer, about “you f-ing the girl next door” uncensored. When I went down to check it out, I found that my computer was playing the full version of Lily Allen’s “Smile”. While it was a [...]
I clicked on this ad without being fully conscious of making the decision. When I realized what I had done, I paused to think through the semi-conscious motivations that would make me click on something that had absolutely no interest to me (I have no interest in sports, scoreboards, champions, or “certified for”).
The ad [...]