Author: Ben

As part of cleaning up today, I noticed I still had a bunch of tea from Adagio sitting around in little sampler tins. Instead of packing, I decided to make some iced tea with it. Mmmm.. Lemon iced tea!

I keep seeing the verbs “architecting” and “architected” around
the software world and it drives some friends of mine well versed in
the English language insane. What do you think? Is “architected” a
word? How would you say “I architected a web site.” instead?

I really dislike IComparer in .NET. Instead of an interface with one
method, I really would have liked things that take an IComparer to take
a delegate instead. That way, instead of having to whip up an entire
class just to encapsulate my custom sorting algorithm for an Array, I
could just make a method with the right signature and run with it.

Looks like I might be doing more serious work with AJAX (that AJAX is so hot right now), and I stumbled upon Rico, a nice little open framework that I should be able to sit on top of. I think it’s time for an IrreversibleProcess upgrade…

The moving sale is pretty much done and now we’re starting to get ready to actually do the move. Since we’re moving from 1200 sq ft to 600 sq ft, we’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking about what to move, how to use it, and how to get more than one use out of things if possible. For instance, I ditched my tv and we’re going to run tv through the 24″ Dell LCD monitor I picked up recently and sound through the computer. Either way, Mandy has been finding all sorts of good things to read on the subject, so I thought I’d catalog them here so we can find them again later:

• Organized Home: Tips for an organized move
• Organized Home: Storage Shuffle – Create a Household Storage Plan
• The art of living in small spaces