It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? … And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and … this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason […]
Read More 1. SimonI’ve never been a “car-of-my-dreams” kind of guy. I don’t spend much time ruminating on whether I’ll ever be able to afford the Mustang I’ve always wanted. Just not me. But I have long searched for The Right Desk, and my search was largely fruitless. I suffer from The Disease of the Right-Minded, otherwise known […]
Read More Tabula RasaWhen I read on reddit today of the death of Aason Swartz, I was immediately filled with a noxious mix of despair and anger. Now let me be clear: I didn’t know Aaron; I wasn’t his friend or family, we weren’t on the same mailing lists, we’d never met. He was a stranger to me, […]
Read More On the passing of Aaronsw…If you’re like me, you’ve often grumbled about the inefficiency of deleting related records from a child entity via EF. For example: In the above example, if I try to delete the Employee Entity that has a key of 1, EF will throw a “Foreign Constraint Violation” exception (as it should). And, yes, I […]
Read More LINQ’s ForEach() MethodEvery father, everywhere on Earth, has felt – or will feel – exactly as I do now, at some point in their life. She walked, tall and wearing her mother’s grace, and crossed a small rise in the platform, and became an official part of the !%. The real 1%: The one percent that gets […]
Read More On a Daughter’s Passage…Not today. Not today.
Read More What do we say to the God of Death?We’ve all heard the anecdote about the woodcutter who was fell behind in his wood-cutting trade because his saw was too dull to cut wood well. When asked why he didn’t take time out to sharpen his saw, the wood-cutter, sweaty and stressed out, muttered that he was too damn busy to waste time sharpening […]
Read More I’m Too Busy To Write This Post…Ths is the single greatest moment in television history. Ever.
Read More Single Greatest Moment…Just a quick post here…had a fantastic and fun time talking about Windows 8 and developing Metro-style apps at the Vermont .Net User Group meeting last night. Here are some links for folks that would like either the slide deck or the demo app we covered: Slide Deck Zip File of VS11 solution (hosted on […]
Read More Vermont DotNet User Group Meeting
Michael Profit 