Cyrus' Blather
Why the !@#!@@!$ can't i just download a simple installer for the C# express sku???
That's a question that I've heard a lot about recently. It's even the #2 suggestion at LadyBug. You...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/09/2004
Do what I mean, not what I say.
So I've been p1mping C# Express pretty actively after the announcements a while back. Part of that...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/09/2004
Hey Wha Happen?!
I while back I posted a link to an incredible session at Tech-Ed related to social engineering...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/07/2004
What can we look forward to from the Mono team in the future.
With the new release of Mono 1.0, I find myself very happy. But i feel that there is much work that...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
Reason #1 I'm glad I didn't go to Carnegie Mellon
The fact that they advocate something called The Cyrus Murder. From the page notes: Note that Cyrus...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
For why my tables appear like the donkey?
So i wrote up my post on the results of the votes for new C# features and I tested out what the post...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
Carrie on Wayward Son
Watched Memento last night with Neil. Strangely enough, he'd never seen it before. Of course, I was...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
Concerns about Spotlight and non-extensible types of data
I'm watching Apple's 2004 WWDC broadcast, and I was watching the part on Spotlight (48 minutes into...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
What do you want in the next version of VS/C# (part 4)
Ok. I tabulated the vote that came in after I asked everyone to contribute. It took a lot longer...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/06/2004
How to screw up the 4th of july.
Get a bunch of friends together Go to Gasworks Park early enough to get great seats Listen to...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/05/2004
New express sku installers available.
Annie Wang (PM on the VS Setup Team) and the rest of the setup team have worked extremely hard to...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/01/2004
Tests aren't methods!
In the feedback section of one of my blogs, Aaron Junod wrote: “In writing this, I just...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/01/2004
Dew the do!
For all of you Mad Magazine "Spy vs. Spy" fans, you need to check out this site. They've done a...
Author: CyrusN Date: 07/01/2004
OMG! 4pple iz TEH HUGE! + (P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-PowerBooks!!)
I just had a disturbing realization while talking to Mikey. I was trying to convince him to buy me...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/30/2004
Practice what you preach.
We've been hearing a lot of reports from customers that they're having trouble installing the...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/30/2004
Well duh!
I just had a profound “well duh” moment a minute ago. I started watching Crouching Tiger...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/30/2004
What's better than watching a beautiful sunset?
Well, i would have to say watching the beautiful sunrise that happens outside my apt every morning....
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/30/2004
Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
Some silly person (with a silly name) had the audacity to make the following claim yesterday in the...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/30/2004
Sometimes it just pays to be a woman.
Claims “Steve Riley” in his amazing presentation at TechEd called “SEC285 -...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/28/2004
What direction do you point?
Fu-zu showed me a pretty cool site called PoliticalCompass.org. It came as no surprise to any of my...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/28/2004
Two important milestones made toward Visual Studio 2005 in the same week!!
A very important milestone was met last week. It was not only an important goal for our team, but...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/28/2004
Imperial Starfleet Deployed to the City in the Little Fluffly Cloudscape Above
iTunes, how i love thee. Did a search for “clouds” and instantaneously got back:...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/26/2004
In what distant deeps or skies; Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
Tiger, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/26/2004
Another reason to have multiple-monitors
The TechEd slides and video are now up!! There are literally hundreds of sessions you can watch (the...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/26/2004
Yet another reason I hate C++
for (long i = 0; parameters.GetCount(); i++) { What could be wrong with that??...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/25/2004
Carrying around the weight of the past
I've been having an incredibly interesting email conversation with Michail Arkhipov (a Dev lead on...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/25/2004
Opening your source
Ok, one of the things I've enjoyed the most about blogging so far is the ability to learn about...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/25/2004
I hate my DNA
It's all like twisty and stuff, and has far too much cytosine and not enough adenine. It holds me...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/24/2004
Baby steps
I'm in the middle of a massive refactoring and its going quite painfully. It's ending up as a...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/24/2004
Drained
It's been a long day. Spent all day long writing up my yearly review (man it's difficult). I then...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/24/2004
Ph34r my skillzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
I thought i'd mention how interesting it is trying to type messages without access to the 'z' key....
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/23/2004
Are some features more harmful than helpful?
We've been talking a lot about the suggestions everyone has been asking us to make. As you may or...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/23/2004
What do you want in the next version of VS/C# (part 3)
Ok, a day passed and there were very few updates made so I thought I'd push this forward. Now it's...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/22/2004
Apocalypse now (redux)
I went out hunting to see if anyone had found pix from the storm from last week and I ran across a...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/22/2004
For all you origami lovers out there
I love origami and have spent much of my life learning about it and practising it. I've always been...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/22/2004
What do you want in the next version of C#/VS (part 2)
I went through the entire list and collected all the features that people requested. I then filtered...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/22/2004
The man is a genius!
Well, he's no Einstein, but Eddie Izzard is hilarious. I got Circle and Dress To Kill for xmas and...
Author: CyrusN Date: 06/21/2004