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Modern Procrastination

July 28, 2010 by Steven A. Lowe

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The Internet is a wonderful information tool. I would not be nearly as well-informed or as effective at my work without it. But it can lead to a severe form of procrastination similar to “analysis paralysis”.

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Filed Under: life, migrate Tagged With: analysis paralysis, internet marketing, life, planning, procrastination, product creation, sales

Old Developers – Any Future?

July 23, 2010 by Steven A. Lowe

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A question was posted on the stellar StackOverflow site a while back, asking if there was any future for “old” developers.

Here is my answer, courtesy of the ingenious Stack2Blog site, slightly edited and reformatted:

Yes Virginia, There Is A Future For Old Developers

I resemble that remark.

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Filed Under: migrate, software development, stackoverflow.com Tagged With: career, family, fun, life, old developers, software development, stackoverflow.com

Agile methods preferred

July 16, 2010 by Steven A. Lowe

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I was watching a talk by Martin Fowler and Neal Ford (the introduction is in French, but the talk is in English) and Neal remarked that in many projects, requirements are unstable. That sparked a realization…

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Filed Under: Agile, migrate, software development Tagged With: Agile, agile methods, martin fowler, neal ford, software development

How to get the Application (.exe) Version Information in .NET

July 15, 2010 by Steven A. Lowe

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If you search for “get application version in .NET” or similar, a lot of answers come back telling you to call System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() – but this gives you the assembly containing the code that is currently running, which may or may not be the application.

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Filed Under: .NET, migrate Tagged With: .NET, application, MSDN, version

Elements of Fiction Writing Series

April 3, 2010 by Steven A. Lowe

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A good friend and editor gave me a copy of the Elements of Fiction Writing series. I’m certain it was just a friendly gesture, and not a critique. Well, mostly certain.

Anyway, I’m finally getting around to reading it, and it is extremely helpful.

It remains to be seen if the tips and techniques will improve my fiction writing, as I have had no time to apply them – but I expect that they will.

Filed Under: migrate, writing Tagged With: book, fiction, writing

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