TODO: Become an Insomniac
Just now, I was about to download OpenOffice.org on my home computer to help with a bug report I made, and realized that I downloaded a 120MB file in about 70 seconds. Yes, I downloaded this puppy at...
View ArticleWriting An Active Record Class
As the Active Record class has become increasingly popular due to it’s wild success in Ruby on Rails, it seems as though every framework has an implementation of it. It is no surprise that inside the...
View ArticleSection 230c For Developers
Preface I am not a lawyer. Do not take this as legal advice. It was brought to my attention that Roommates.com was sued for violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA). This was of extreme interest to me...
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Working at Microsoft
It is currently a little over a month into my full time employment at Microsoft, and I am extremely pleased with everything that I am working on. For those that don’t know yet, I work on the installer...
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The Fashion Police Have Arrived
In an off the wall post for my blog – it appears that a small suburb of Chicago has banned baggy pants. In short, you cannot show more than 3” of underwear otherwise you get a $25 ticket. I personally...
View ArticleAlice Does, or It Does?
Over the past few weeks while developing the next version of the Windows Live Installer, I have had discussions with other developers over different parts of the system. Each and every time we have...
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First Impressions With IE8 Beta 2
I have been an avid fan of Mozilla Firefox for a long time, but since I got a new job, I have been trying to exclusively use Microsoft products (at least at work). One of the things that I have been...
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Bad UI Designs
I am usually a fan of open source software, but the latest two that I have downloaded are sore on my eyes and a real pain to use! The first is Media Coder, while the second is JJ MP3 Renamer. It has...
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Me: 90, Logan Buesching: 0
When looking on Facebook the other day, I noticed something peculiar. That is NOT me. Seriously, how many Logan Buesching’s are there on the internet? Windows Live tells only knows about one. I just...
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