Wireless Adapter Traps Linksys E4200: Retrospective A simple way to see if someone is spam scamming you How to resolve a complex type as a string implicitly How to use a complex type in a conditional
Wireless Adapter Traps Ok so you go to the store and you’re looking around for an awesome deal on a Wireless-N adapter, and you find one for only $14!  ”How can this be!?” you might ask yourself?  Well, let me explain something to you before you end up with the same situation I find myself in right now.
Linksys E4200: Retrospective I just recently retired my WRT54G in favor or a Wireless N Router.  I ended up going with the Linksys E4200 for a number of reasons.
A simple way to see if someone is spam scamming you I hate having to sign up for anything on the internet. If I can avoid it I will, but nevertheless at some point you’re going to have to sign up for something.
How to resolve a complex type as a string implicitly Along the same lines as resolving a complex type in a conditional, I also want to be able to take the same Authorization Result, and use it to broadcast a message to the system (or user), and tell them why couldn’t they be authorized.
How to use a complex type in a conditional I am building a basic authorization framework, and I have really liked the use of it so far. It basically looks something like this
Mental Floss: Days for a Week

So as I build the week up, I’m adding Days onto it, but what do they look like?

 
Mental Floss: Weeks on the Calendar

Now we’ve gone through how the month is modeled, we need to see how weeks are being built.

 
Gist @ GitHub and why it’s awesome

In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of my posts recently have been using gist. It’s an awesome tool that’s freely available which allows you to write snippets of code in a variety of languages.

 
Mental Floss: The Month on the Calendar

So we’ve seen what the Calendar looks like, and how it’s building it’s Months, but what goes into building a Month?

 
Mental Floss: The Calendar ViewModel

So my ViewModel basically starts with the idea of a Calendar and it’s Events. So what did I end up making that look like? Let’s disregard the markup for now, because how it looks isn’t really what we’re talking about here. What we’re talking about is how the Calendar and it’s Events are modeled.

 
Team Maturity: Self-Organizing

Your team has been in the Learning stage and it’s heading into the Self-Organizing stage. Team members have learned the skills necessary to become self-organizing now, and everything gets done whether you’re there or not. This is where a lot of people get scared. What good am I as a lead if I’m not needed anymore? Couldn’t my higher ups just fire me and let the team do it’s thing?

 
Mental Floss: The problem with my Circle is…

that I’m exposing too many details to the user of my code. The developer has to know intimate details about how to set up both the Ellipse and the Circle in order to calculate their areas effectively. In one case, the Ellipse, the runner has to know to set the major and minor axes, while for the Circle, they have know to set the Radius.