Archive for March, 2008

Column Guidelines in Visual Studio 2005

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Thanks to Sara Ford’s awesome article, I just added column guides to Visual Studio 2005 on my development machine.

Code File for Global.asax

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Unlike a typical .aspx page, when I created a Global.asax page in my ASP.NET 2.0 project (Visual Studio 2005), I ended up with a single page with script in it. I wanted to put my code in a separate file, but it wasn’t immediately clear how to correctly do that. Kiran Chand has a blog post that tells you how to do this, and it worked for me.

Thanks Kiran!

Programming Will Always be Fun

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

From a Brian Kernighan interview in Linux Journal:

LJ: Could you say that you love computers (IT)?

BK: No. There was a time when they were incredible fun to work with, and I really enjoyed programming and getting the machine to do things, but it was never my whole life. And modern systems are so messy and complicated that they are more frustrating than rewarding most of the time. It’s still pretty easy to get completely wrapped up in trying to write a program, though; that will always be fun.