@ryanbaldwin if you do a lot of wiki editing (and Stack Overflow has a lot of wiki aspects) search inside textbox is crucial

the c switch statement (and thus inherited by Java and c#) is a programming atrocity

hmm, deadlocking on indexes now -- specifically the primary key of our main table.

ooh, Chrome doesn't search inside text input boxes. That's a serious dealbreaker.

Google Docs is seriously screwing me with a 20k row sheet. Keeps shifting my "have mailed" cell over so I mail people multiple times. Bah.

bummer, it looks like database deadlocks are back for our insanely read heavy query load. READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT apparently isn't enough..

er, playing drums and singing at the same time is really hard in Rock Band

ok so for the record playing drums and singig

of course paying $2k per megabyte to buy "special" gold-plated vendor RAM is a different kind of problem. Then every byte matters, I guess.

via @KathySierra "Every thing is composed of tinier, cuter things." http://tinyurl.com/5hl8gr

hmm, major breaking change for us in ASP.NET Preview 5: no more HtmlHelper.RenderUserControl, and we use that tons of places

Parens. In. URLs. Must. Fing. Die. Tell me, is this valid? (http://www.foo.com) ? By the way, that's a link to http://www.foo.com)

heh, try this in Chrome: http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed.php ; 2x as fast as FF3

dang, I just realized no flashblock / adblock in Chrome. Contact euphoria high now wearing off. It's the only thing I need, though.

I predict Chrome is going to put a *major* hurtin' on Firefox's market share real soon. IE probably won't be affected (less discriminating)

@KathySierra I try to smother the trolls with kindness. They always expect negative energy in return, and they don't know how to react.

correction to previous tweet, "doc menu, developer, Task Manager"

in Chrome: right-click, Task Manager (!), Stats for nerds link is on bottom left. it's "about:memory"

Chrome is like a laundry list of everything Firefox, Safari and IE weren't giving me that I wanted. OK, I'll shut up with the praise now.

@KathySierra "your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care" http://tinyurl.com/2z3wsx

OMG OMG Google Chrome has a "stats for nerds" link. I think I am in love, people. oooohhhh..

think of Google Chrome as Safari, which is a truly great browser, minus the aggravating Mac-isms. Well, except for 13pt monospace fonts.

oh, Google. You inherited the "let's make monospace fonts 13pt for no reason" default of Safari. BAD GOOGLE! BAD! /slap

Google Chrome is 55% awesome and 55% utter win. Hell, webkit minus Apple's insane font rendering strategy is plenty o' win.

Re: SO hater blog. You realize that by linking to this, I am *encouraging* the attention trolls: http://blogging-harmful.blogspot.com/

how to know Stack Overflow is a success: we already have our own dedicated hater-blog. Awesome.

And I say that as someone who *likes* Vista, it just doesn't make a compelling upgrade argument like Office 2k7 does.

Word/Excel/Powerpoint 2007 are such a pleasure to use. Great, innovative UI. Put whoever did those in charge of the rest of MSFT! :)

@a_hardin "Wait, that's what stackoverflow is for. :D" exactly lol

adding in a bunch of .logthis() and .logthat() calls is just lame, IMO. Inject logging on every method call / SQL call if you need it.

the slow motion shot at the end of this Mythbusters NVIDIA stunt is SO money http://tinyurl.com/6b3cmo

removing the Log4Net dependency from our project, as it was causing us to deadlock. I <3 THIRD PARTY LIBRARIES! (spits on ground)

Can there be a single day that goes by without me clicking on a MSDN self-link that's broken? Is it possible? Apparently not.

Public Service Announcement: I do not agree with, own, or operate every web site I link to. Thank you. Carry on.

"Just a heartbeat away from becoming a PILF!" http://www.vpilf.com/

I guess what I'm saying is that Google Chrome articulates a lot of the things I desperately want out of my web experience right now

based on windbg dump analysis, looks like our deadlocks *might* be due to a Log4Net deadlock.

my gut feeling is that Google Chrome could in fact be the model for all future desktop computing -- the browser reinvented, web 3.0

I must concur that there are too many mutha 'uckas 'uckin with my shi' at the moment. http://tinyurl.com/23b764

extreme golfing gone awry http://tinyurl.com/57b5xz

"At the moment, as with every other programming community on the Internet it's the blind leading the blind." - Stack Overflow user

if you did not know I was referring to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" -- you're fired. Pack up your desk.

got to play "Bad Reputation" with the Harmonix guys on stage. Fake plastic rock nerdgasm achieved.

eating at rotating Sky City restauraunt in the Seattle space needle -- scenic

@LaTteEX original target was Sep 3rd, we decided to push back a week+ because of the hanging issues (still not solved)

"bring the joy of making music to non-musicians"

rock band 2 and guitar hero: world tour swag achieved!

not feeling the utilikilt vibe. who knew there were so many dudes comfortable wearing a denim skirt?

another line.

starting to really hate the giant room of lining up. That's life: one giant line ending with your grave.

I can unashamedly say the Freezepop show was one of the best live performances I've ever seen. 2 wailin keytars ftw

Freezepop is much better than expected -- I guess synths can rock too

Ken Levine is *killing* in his PAX keynote

"when my parents rolled up my character, they didn't get any eighteens."

guy with hypercolor cap and wearing nintendo power glove: check

new conference rule: no more of that damn clicker swag. clickclickclickclick

geek con: skill level is always expert on every instrument

the crowd is totally singing along with Carry On My Wayward Son. Awesome.

at the Rock Band 2 booth @ PAX naturally

remember when being a geek meant you were an outcast? or in a convention hall with 40k of people like yourself?

PAX is a lesson in the mainstreaming of geek culture

there is a guy playing StepMania by himself, with headphones, on a laptop here at PAX

"PS if you could make Stack Overflow less addicting I would appreciate it."

just walked by Jonathan Coulton sitting at a sidewalk bar table

people are seriously mesmerized by these MS Surface tables. I can't even remember the last bit of MS tech I've seen people so into.

OK, every time I see "sent from my iPhone" from this point on, I am mentally converting that to "I'm an enormous doofus. Really. Huge."

Hey, they have those wacky MS Surface tables here at the Seattle Sheraton. People seem really into them! Overheard: "This is so cool!"

have I mentioned how much I love 3G smartphone tethering when I'm traveling? I think I have. Fast internet anywhere is pure sex.

getting on plane to pax

@BPAndrew ooh, good idea! I'm desperate enough to try anything. Well, more than usual anyway.

"Lloyds is pants" http://tinyurl.com/5zvos4

An Ilustrated guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability http://tinyurl.com/6bn5n2

GolfScript is a stack oriented esoteric programming language aimed at solving problems http://www.golfscript.com/golfscript/

"Opera has by far the best UI out of the 3" -- which is "by far" the funniest thing I've read all day

RegexOptions.IgnoreCase is more expensive than I would have thought (eg, should be barely measurable)

NOW GIMME MY $100

By the way, setting the option (maxdop 1) hint fixes that top n query perf, too. Parallelism : really expensive and hard since 1987.

and why does the deprecated SET ROWCOUNT (n) work so much better in that scenario? MYSTERIES!!

ok, I'm stumped. Why is SELECT TOP 60 r.Textcol so much more expensive than SELECT r.Textcol? And yes, the ORDER BY is on an index.

Where's that bottle of water I spray on the users when they're being extra bad? They gotta learn!

tabs. (spits on the ground) seriously, there oughta be a law. Spaces, baby, *spaces*!

now why in the wide, wide world of sports would Safari default to a 13pt monospace font vs. 16 point normal font? Good one, Apple.

man, does cuil suck.Ye gods it is bad. What were they thinking?

oh, nice: http://www.osnews.com/comics

preview of my conversation with @wilshipley at PAX: "Hey Wil, great to see you!" "Hey Jeff, how's it go--holy *jebus* look at THAT RACK!"

if (b.Secret) return PageNotFound(); // not sure why I find this so amusing, still

Can someone explain the complex symbology of Whitesnake's "Lovehunter" album to me? I don't get it. http://is.gd/1XiF

Every time we have the Olympics, I feel like a civ has completed a Wonder in Sid Meiers' Civilization

"the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable."

dynamic LED keyboard is cool, and all, but.. useful? http://tinyurl.com/6lfxfd

don't make me dance angrily in your general direction, hackers. CUZ I WILL http://tinyurl.com/5zmvxo

getting schooled on XSS. Man, building a website with an audience of bored programmers who can submit markup is .. challenging.

yay! IE8 beta 2 is coming "in the next few days"! Here's hoping it doesn't suck!

large hadron rap: much cooler than expected http://tinyurl.com/5by22l

on the way we handle voting in Stack Overflow: "it's a good thing we don't make voting machines" LOL so true

I can't deny requests from programmers who email me from Iraq deployments. That's gotta suck.

Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? http://tinyurl.com/64exwm

programming: it really is all about knowing when to boil the orange sponge donkey. http://is.gd/1U6P

most inappropriate use of Comic Sans ever. Solving murders doesn't mean you can have fun! http://flickr.com/photos/chrislewis/2796727982/

apparently the universe will not be complete until every living being has a simpsons and/or manga user icon