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Abe Miessler
Sacramento, CA
Software Engineer specializing in .NET and SQL Server
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Excellent post! Persuasion, and communication in general, is underrated in the tech industry.
Commented Jul 23, 2012 on But You Did Not Persuade Me at Coding Horror
But You Did Not Persuade Me
One of my favorite movie scenes in recent memory is from The Last King of Scotland, a dramatized "biography" of the megalomaniac dictator Idi Amin, as seen through the eyes of a fictional Scottish personal physician. Idi AminI want you to tell me what to do! GarriganYou want ME to tell YOU ...
Awesome post. I just started using LINQ to SQL at my new job and was curious how it stacked up performance-wise. Thanks for the info.
Commented Mar 22, 2010 on Compiled or Bust? at Coding Horror
Compiled or Bust?
While I may have mixed emotions toward LINQ to SQL, we've had great success with it on Stack Overflow. That's why I was surprised to read the following: If you are building an ASP.NET web application that's going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is goi...
Very interesting on how the type writer ties into all of this. Nice post.
Commented Feb 16, 2010 on The Great Newline Schism at Coding Horror
The Great Newline Schism
Have you ever opened a simple little ASCII text file to see it inexplicably displayed as onegiantunbrokenline? Opening the file in a different, smarter text editor results in the file displayed properly in multiple paragraphs. The answer to this puzzle lies in our old friend, invisibl...
Glad to have you (and comments) back!
Commented Feb 16, 2010 on Welcome Back Comments at Coding Horror
Welcome Back Comments
I apologize for the scarcity of updates lately. There have been two things in the way: Continuing fallout from International Backup Awareness Day, which meant all updates to Coding Horror from that point onward were hand-edited text files. Which, believe me, isn't nearly as sexy as it … uh …...
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