Jon Fazzaro

So, maybe we only bother with the screen under the heading of backward compatibility.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:24:37 -0500

Tomorrow’s more successful nerds will need to learn to see around the ways in which the traditional KVM interface to software has blocked in our thinking. What will be possible and probable when you can regularly expect to speak and think at your applications? What will the screen look like?

Consider that it’s the thrilling year 2012 now, and we are still making plenty of audio-only telephone calls. That’s not because the technology for video phones isn’t there. The ubiquitous Videophone never happened because the use case was fiction—a real telephone conversation involves walking, driving, or just not necessarily being presentable or stationary in any way.

What Does The Emotiv Headset Mean for the Future of UX Design? [ Aptera Software ]

"Do you want twenty more years of driving into work on one cheek because you’re about to poop..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:47 -0500

“Do you want twenty more years of driving into work on one cheek because you’re about to poop yourself with how much you hate it?”

- Merlin, here reminding me why I stuck out LITERALLY the worst opening hour of a Back To Work ep ever.

Video

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:05 -0500

Hey, Beavis. Extend.

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:54:00 -0500

Wouldn’t it be loverly if we could just ask a steaming pile of SalesOrderHeaders for these things, one at a time, in plain English? Picture it.
Seriously, see it first—great APIs start by envisioning the consuming code up front:
var myOrders = db.SalesOrderHeaders
                .From(DateTime.Today.AddDays(-7))
                .To(DateTime.Today)
                .FromOnline()
                .ThatAreHighlyTaxed()
                .ThatWereMadeOnA(DayOfWeek.Thursday)
                .OrderedByARelative();
What’s killer about what we’re about to pull off here is that we can make this happen without ever sullying our data access code. We can keep the logic in a totally separate layer. This is made possible by the modern .NET miracle of Extension Methods, a feature introduced in .NET 3.0, largely to make LINQ possible at all. And in the same way NASA indirectly gave us a really pretty nice pen because Neil and Buzz and pals needed to scratch chickens whilst being floaty and disoriented, the benefits of the necessity extend beyond the mother of their invention. See what I did there? Extend. Moving on.

Get Your “Legos” Right With Fluent Query Extensions [ Aptera Software ]

I'm Already Scratching At My Honorary Neckbeard.

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:44:00 -0500

My First™ Open Source project:

A little Persistence Ignorance framework that features those Unit of Work, Repository, and Inversion of Control patterns you keep hearing so much about.

Only, now you’re not pecking them out and maintaining them in your application code, because Ignorance already did that.

So, in much the same way that your business logic will be carefree and clueless about how your data is persisted, you get to skip down the hallway and be all, “la la, business code, business code”, and not give two squirts about implementing another IRepository.

[ Ignorance on GitHub ]

[ Ignorance on NuGet ]

Episode 2: May I Have This Dance

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:20:04 -0500

fightnaked:

Epifode The Fecond, in which IT’S US AGAIN. Also, we learn about dealing with those words that we don’t wish for the tenderest of our loved ones to hear, while our master of ceremony manages to gain some clarity on This Dance We Do.

You guys all have guns, right?

[ The Fight Naked Podcast - Ep. 2 ]

[ Download May I Have This Dance ]

Opening a Modal Dialog on Page Load from Server-Side Code? Don’t...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:16:57 -0400

Opening a Modal Dialog on Page Load from Server-Side Code? Don’t Forget This Sweet (and Totally Critical) Function Call [ Aptera SharePoint Development ]

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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:54:42 -0400

"The fact that I can go in, and, if I chose, shave without using water gives me some clarity. It..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:47:06 -0400

“The fact that I can go in, and, if I chose, shave without using water gives me some clarity. It enables me to say, ‘I can handle this, whatever; if there are Vietcong in my apple trees, they’re not going to smell me today, because I shaved without using detergent.’”

- John Roderick, putting a bow on the reason some of us torture ourselves when we don’t really have to.

merlin: neilio: Buddy Rich stick trick solo (FULL VERSION) (by...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:04:45 -0400

merlin:

neilio:

Buddy Rich stick trick solo (FULL VERSION) (by cadaverr)

At the time, the man was 60. Six. Ty.

In other news: death metal BLAST BEAT at 1:17.

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Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:45:09 -0400

On Seriousness

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:53:57 -0400

Human beings are really a lot of tubes. All living creatures are just tubes. And these tubes have to put things in at one end, and let them out at the other.

Then, they get clever about it and they develop nerve ganglia on one end of the tube, the eating end, called a ‘head’. And that’s got eyes, and it’s got ears, and it’s got little organs and anntenae and things like this, and that helps you find things to put in one end so that you can let them out the other.

Well, while you’re doing this, you see, the stuff going through wears the tube out. And so, the show can go on—the tubes have complicated ways of making other tubes, who will go on doing the same thing. In at one end, and out the other.

And they say, “Well, that’s terribly serious. It’s awfully important. WE’VE GOT TO KEEP ON DOING THIS.”

- Alan Watts, Man And Nature [ Alan Watts Podcast ]

Your Christening Skills Can Make or Break a Work of Software

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:36:00 -0400

In fact, I’m going to go as far as to say that if you’ve never been properly bound up on the New dialog, in a fix not unlike like the one I describe above, you don’t care enough about giving things good names in your code. And odds are that you have left a trail of miserable developers in your wake, weeping like lost children and wondering which end is up in that fragile pile of Visual Basic they just inherited from you.

I’m just guessing about the Visual Basic.

Naming Is A Developer Skill [ Aptera Software ]

You, Sir! How About A Shave?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:58:00 -0400

Today is the day. The day you finally throw down your hat and bid adieu to the angle-percents. The day you snatch hypertext from the jaws of awkwardly-indented awkwardness. Today you upgrade your ASP.NET MVC Views to Razor.

The gorgeous, buttery syntactical goodness of Razor. The seamless weaving of server code and HTML in a next-to-godliness codebase you’ve always known was possible, but was just out of—um.

Oh, right. Like you’re not a psychopath for clean code.

Use These Regular Expressions to Convert Your Views to Razor Without Quite So Much Typing [ Aptera Software ]

To: My This

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:40 -0400

Happy Birthday! Love, Daddy.

Plus? Ham.

Exactly

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:49:55 -0400

Wifey breaks it down for me, as per usual.

With an assist from Google Voice.

If that’s what you’re into

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:09:45 -0400

The tooling advances that 2010s SharePoint and Visual Studio have provided are wondrous and pampering. They make it easy to forget that we used to need a Server version of Windows to have a SharePoint instance to develop against, and that, often, the contemporary browser of SharePoint 2007, Internet Explorer 6, was the main target for your work.

And as soon as you get up out of that ridiculous fetal position, I’ll walk you through how I get all of this done without having to step into what only appears to be an ordinary phone booth.

If you’re from the United States and you’re awesome, that’s a Bill & Ted reference. If you’re English or just super into the Nerdist, it’s a Doctor Who nod.

Dimensionally transcendental, in either case.

How To Get IE6-Friendly SharePoint 2007 Development Done on Windows Server 2008 R2 [ Aptera SharePoint Development ]

Stop me if you've heard this one

Tue, 03 May 2011 08:08:45 -0400

I mean, sure. You can try to convince { the other devs | your client | your boss } that that component needs to be a WCF Service written in C# 4, hitting the database with Massive, and that you ought to look into slapping ELMAH in there to help with those late-night support calls.

But { the servers are only running .NET 2.0 | we don’t use Open Source here | we’re a VB shop }. And there isn’t a thing you can do about it.

So. What can we do to reconcile this gaping void between your fire-breathing potential as a software god and your boss’s to do list? Not long ago, my colleague Dan Fischer posted here extolling the virtues of maintaining an app that has nothing to do with your day job. I’m here to second Dan’s approach—perhaps even to third and fourth it. Because there is nothing like one hundred percent ownership of a codebase to learn you up a thing or two about writing software.

Do You Have A Pet Application? [ Aptera Software ]

Well.

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:23:28 -0400

I thought that joke was funny.

The Code Monkey Caste, Some Senior Level Interview Questions, and Knowing What You Don't Know

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:57:00 -0400

Scott Hanselman, one of my very favorite celebrity developers, recently drafted a list of interview questions that those among us bearing the title of Senior Software Engineer should really know the answers to. And though the last time anyone called me Senior anything was in my high school Spanish class, I dress for the job I want, and I fell upon the list con fiebre just to see where I stood.

Indeed, even if you are of the lowest caste of code monkey peons, you should do the same. If you’ve had your nose under the hood of a codebase of any depth at all, you’ll be able to wrap your head around these ideas. Not to mention that the personality questions he poses are things you should be asking yourself every morning in the bathroom mirror anyway.

[ from my Blog at Aptera ]

Jon Fazzaro

So, maybe we only bother with the screen under the heading of backward compatibility.

"Do you want twenty more years of driving into work on one cheek because you’re about to poop..."

Video

Hey, Beavis. Extend.

I'm Already Scratching At My Honorary Neckbeard.

A little Persistence Ignorance framework that features those Unit of Work, Repository, and Inversion of Control patterns you keep hearing so much about.

Episode 2: May I Have This Dance

Opening a Modal Dialog on Page Load from Server-Side Code? Don’t...

Photo

"The fact that I can go in, and, if I chose, shave without using water gives me some clarity. It..."

merlin: neilio: Buddy Rich stick trick solo (FULL VERSION) (by...

Photo

On Seriousness

Your Christening Skills Can Make or Break a Work of Software

You, Sir! How About A Shave?

To: My This

Exactly

If that’s what you’re into

Stop me if you've heard this one

Well.

The Code Monkey Caste, Some Senior Level Interview Questions, and Knowing What You Don't Know