Required C# Extension Method for WinForms Programmers

Why I Drink Good Coffee

Good coffee doesn't imply expensive. It merely pleases the palette
with flavors from where it grew.

Good coffee transports your thoughts to its origin and connects you to
the memories of travel and desires of future adventures.

Good coffee energizes you with its taste, not its caffeine.

The Future

The future of everything is integration.

The quest for a unified theory of everything is the best known example of why we could stagnate our understanding of everyday things.

The complexity of computers is just one problem that isn't treated correctly by those who don't understand it. In order for humans to continue to grow as a species, we'll have to overcome our limited views of the world and understand concepts from the smallest to largest levels.

Good luck to all of us.

Good Rickstab

Good Rickstab, originally uploaded by millerb.

Here's a good one. Sucker got stabbed and rickrolled. Rickstabbed FTW.

Code Comment You Don't Want to See

// error handling has NOT been tested and may cause errors.

Overhead FAIL

Perl, BrainF***, and MUMPS

Perl and BrainF*** have nothing on MUMPS.

Traffic

Being stuck in traffic is too clown shoe for me.

Coffee Review: Archer Farms Bolivia Caranavi

Archer Farms Bolivia Caranavi. I bought it expecting it to be decent, having convinced myself that the tin-can Archer Farms coffees are nothing more than repackaged European Roasterie beans.

I was blown away. The first pot I made rivaled Paradise Roasters lower-tier beans. It's well worth the $.80/oz or so price tag.

MVC FAIL

22000+ line Windows Form file.

MVC FAIL

Picard Song

I'm hooked on DarkMateria's Picard Song. I love the New Order samples and the Zlad one is just perfect.

I don't recognize the other samples.

Yes, I'm way behind the meme.

Rickstabbing

I invented Rickstabbing in Team Fortress 2.

1. Spray your Rick Astley avatar such that it will appear in the "killed by" snapshot.
2. Stab your opponent.

Stop. Singleton Time!

Singleton:

In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a design pattern that is used to restrict instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across the system. Sometimes it is generalized to systems that operate more efficiently when only one or a few objects exist. It is also considered an anti-pattern since it is often used as a euphemism for global variable.

If you've ever come across one of these in a software project, please read the superb Ars Technica thread about them right now. It's by far the best discussion of this "pattern".

Coffee Costs

Here's a list I compiled a few months ago when I tried to find the cheapest staple coffee I could tolerate. I went ahead and picked a few of the more expensive favorites.

I am Coffee

I've had the following today:

• Large White Mocha with 4 shots of espresso
• Large White Mocha with 3 shots of espresso
• 10oz regular coffee
• 10oz regular coffee
• Large espresso (4 shots)
  

Beer as dark and thick as oil

Goose Island Bourbon Stout, 2007, is an intense beer. At 13.5% alcohol, with a fairly strong bourbon aftertaste, it's a definite sipper.