Irrational Exuberance

Lab49’s Surface

November 20th, 2008

Our Surface showed up this week and we had fun unpacking it and setting it up yesterday. 

The Surface in Lab49's office waiting area

Now, on to the real fun - developing apps for it!

Gallows Humor

September 17th, 2008

Few things Wall Streeters love more than a bit of gallows humor.  In that vein:

Dilbert on Lehman Brothers

Microspeak - "Readiness"

February 19th, 2008

Not in the usual sense of the word, I am now hearing this as a synonym for “training materials”.  As in,

Our field sales reps need to learn about the new SQL Server 2008 product.  Is there any readiness for it they can download?

more Microspeak here

Experimental Feature in F#

January 30th, 2008

I’ve been looking for opportunities to express myself in F# and I found a good idea on Hubfs:

http://cs.hubfs.net/blogs/solong/archive/2008/01/14/4561.aspx

The idea is to solve problems at ProjectEuler in F#
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems

While implementing the solution for problem #2 in F#, I learned about an experimental feature. fun fun. Read the rest of this entry »

code.lab49.com

September 29th, 2007

Lab49 has created a public repository for open source software projects.

I have a few projects up that I’d like to tell you about.
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