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By barton on
6/1/2009
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Microsoft recently released for download beta 1 of Visual
Studio Team System 2010 and .NET
4.0. There are many new features and lots of improvements,
and I have only just started to explore. Many of the capabilities,
however useful, are not usable since this is a beta product and will
not be RTM for several months. However, there are a couple of gems I've
already uncovered that are available for Visual Studio 2008 - so you
don't have to wait to use them.
The first is PEX.
It is smart analyzer for your methods that generates parameters and will generate unit tests for your code based on that analysis. This tool will really help developers write more useful unit tests quickly.
The seco ...
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Valentine Lyrics |
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By barton on
4/3/2009
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A lot of people have written me and asked for the lyrics to valentine - here they are:
valentine
music and lyrics by barton
©1996 .netspheres. all rights reserved.
published by .netspheres music / PRS
morning comes along and i hear this song on a lonely street
a frozen moment of emptiness where we used to meet
glimmers of your love like rainbows from above are falling to the ground
i try to hold it back
my voice i hear it crack
can you hear me calling?
and will i see your face again?
you see the state i'm in
i cannot hide the pain i'm in,
can you understand?
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FORMATIVELY yours |
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By barton on
1/20/2009
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I'm very happy to announce that FORMATIVE, my
ninth solo release and first full-length album, is available on CD. The
digital release is imminent, but for those of you who like jewel cases,
album art, and liner notes, this is the format for you.
FORMATIVE is
a collection of songs I wrote and completed before the release of TONIGHT in
2004. An excerpt from the liner notes say it best:
The recording artists that
have moved me the most over the years are those who are somehow able to
write and produce songs that, regardless of when they are played, don't
sound dated and continue to reflect something consistent about the
artist. As long as I can remember, I hav ...
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Where We Are Headed |
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By barton on
12/7/2008
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I have been thinking a lot recently about some of the phenomena that
are described and associated with Web 2.0 technologies and the economic
forces behind them. In her book “Web
2.0: A Strategy Guide”, Amy Shuen does a great job surveying
various features and capabilities found in Web 2.0 companies as well as
explaining how these are driven from an economic perspective, sometimes
in ways that are essentially redefining economics, or at least
permanently changing the landscape.
For example, she discusses how financial analysts calculate the value
of Web 2.0 companies using different kinds of metrics than than non-Web
2.0 companies. She explains that financial valuations of Web 2.0
companies are no longer calculated based on earnings multiples but on
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As I Sit Here Floating Gently in the Sky |
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By barton on
11/29/2008
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This is genre of blog entry I rarely indulge in: the revealing
disclosure. But I have been silent for more than a year on
this blog, and some explanation is in order.
As
I sit here floating gently in the sky, just making landfall to North
America, my fingers are “itchy” to type these words. I have not felt
this in a long while and have been waiting for this feeling for a long
time.
I am flying back to San Francisco from Berlin, watching
the longest sunset one can possibly imagine, one that reeks of
California even from here on the Northeastern tip of Canada. The flame
red hue banding the edge of the hemisphere I now speed toward, speckled
with cloud, dotted with overtones of purple and yellow, diffuses into
an innocuous baby blue. And it is getting lighter, as if morning is
coming, though I know I am merely crossing the wake of coming nightfall.
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Rethinking Ourselves |
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By barton on
11/23/2008
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This interesting
overview from Dr. Michael Wesch, a digital ethnographer at
Kansas State University, presents some of the fundamental forces at
play in "Web 2.0" technologies. In addition to explaining the
technology, this video makes the crucial observation that people, not
technology, are the drivers, enabled by the technology (see Engelbart).
Wesch concludes his video by reminding us that Web 2.0 is causing us
(among other things) to rethink copyright, authorship, identity,
ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love,
family, and ourselves. Thanks to Amy Shuen in her book "Web
2.0: A Strategy Guide" for this helpful reference.
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