Archive for February, 2008

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

SlickEdit Word Sudoku – February 2008

Word Sudoku is played the same way as traditional sudoku, only instead of 9 unique numbers the puzzle is solved using 9 unique letters. Those letters unscramble to spell out a familiar word for SlickEdit users. If you need a hint, you’ll find the unscrambled word in the solved sudoku puzzle.
Letters for [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in SlickEdit Games by Jeffrey

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Plug-in Extensibility Through Reflection in .Net and Java

Extensibility is very important to me. I like to work with architectures that allow you to write classes that implement an interface, then have those classes be “discovered” and instantiated into working extensions of the existing system. Maybe that’s why I love working on plug-ins for Visual Studio… it’s fun to get into the guts [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Scott Hackett

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Don’t Stick Your Head in the Oven (and other things I’ve learned)

You should not stick your head in the oven.  There are a number of reasons:

Gas oven

If the gas is on, but the pilot light is out, you could asphyxiate and die
If the gas is on, and the pilot light is on, the oven will be hot.  You could be badly burned, and breath in heated [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Productivity by Dan H