After working until a quarter after five in the morning I was awoken by the office calling me at seven past eight this morning to discuss the same issues that we had just left a few hours before. So my day started early after having gone very, very late yesterday. It is going to be …
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May 11, 2008: Dominica Leave for Houston
Doggy-Daddy Week Begins. The alarm went off at three thirty this morning. We barely had time to close our eyes, it seems. It was tough getting out of bed to go to the airport. I can’t believe that Dominica was able to get up on just three hours of sleep, shower and get herself ready …
May 10, 2008: Discovering the Hudson Valley
New York’s Hudson Valley has always been a strange place to me. Being from western New York the lower Hudson Valley (south of Albany) is a place of immense history and importance but appears to serve as nothing more than a traffic corridor between the capital at Albany and New York City at the valley’s …
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May 9, 2008: Blustery Day
I was up until one thirty in the morning or later programming last night. There is much to be done and only a week to do it in. No time to waste. I was up at my usual time on for a Friday. I logged in and got some work done and paid the bills. …
Singleton Pattern in C#
Implementing the Gang of Four Singleton Pattern in Microsoft’s C# .NET language is nearly identical to its Java implementation. The Singleton Pattern (as definied by the Gang of Four in 1995) is to “ensure a class only has one instance, and provide a global point of access to it.” The idea behind the Singleton pattern …