Jeff Makes Software

I decided to take a break yesterday from my efforts toward a new site to "enjoy" a little science project. The short description is that it's a little Silverlight app that I'd like to run out-of-browser, talking to the server via a WCF service. Before I knew it, I felt like there was XML configuration everywhere.

A very long time ago I set up Subversion on one of my servers, and did it the old fashioned way... mucking about with config files and all of that with an instance of Apache. Yuck. I remember it taking a few hours because I hadn't seen Apache since, well, since long before I would've called myself a professional code monkey.

The Twitterworld or (Twittersphere or whatever silly shit someone made up today) was all abuzz about the release of Silverlight 3 today, and I was shocked at how quickly it made the trends and how overwhelmingly it was positive.

I was reading somewhere about some anecdotal evidence that Google doesn't like to index images that don't have some kind of modification time on them. When I relaunched CoasterBuzz last year, I moved all of my coaster pr0n to the database, and I've since noticed that none of the images are in fact indexed. Bummer.

This makes me laugh, in light of tech pundits who overstate the importance of Twitter.

I read a good post today about the silly wars that go on in versus debates, in this case the arguments about whether to use Webforms or MVC for ASP.NET. I kind of saw this storm coming when people started describing themselves as part of the alternative "movement" in the ASP.NET community.

Obviously Silverlight runs on OS X. That much we know, since developers like me use it for non-development tasks instead of Windows. How difficult would it be to adapt it to stand-alone apps on the iPhone? Even if it had to include the runtime and base library (at a few megabytes), it would still be pretty cool, and we wouldn't have to use Xcode (which I'm not impressed with).

I just read the JJ Abrams essay in the previous issue of Wired. This essay really struck home about where we get joy out of life, and how we seem so eager to overlook it. This quote sums it up for me: