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Found a bug in TaxCut

I actually finished my taxes a couple of weeks ago but I received a package from the New York state tax folks a few days ago saying there was a problem with my tax return. The total local tax withholding amount reported on my main tax form did not equal the sum of the local […]

Posted 11 March 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (2) °

More fun with Microsoft SharePoint

In most programming languages/APIs, you should be able to construct a boolean statement with an unlimited number of ANDs or ORs that can be aggregated together easily. e.g. if (a.isRed() OR b.isBlue() OR c.isGreen() OR d.isBlack() etc…)
But everything has to be difficult with Microsoft, doesn’t it?
This blog post describes an issue with constructing a query […]

Posted 05 July 2007 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

if (!englishDocs.isAvailable()) showJapanese();

I’m working with Microsoft SharePoint on my current project. I came across this great error message when viewing the SharePoint documentation on MSDN:

Posted 28 June 2007 † peter § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Microsoft: Asian female programmers wanted

Microsoft must be having such a hard time getting software engineers to develop in .NET that they’re going after female Asian teenagers:

“Look, programming in .NET is so much fun!”

Posted 22 May 2007 † peter § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Microblogging

A few weeks ago, I was trying to think of interesting new ideas for a web application. I thought of having a site where people can publish content but it’d be more lightweight than a blog. More like having one-liners with no commenting.
But then I found out about Twitter, which is almost exactly what […]

Posted 30 April 2007 † peter § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °