Brian Graf's Weblog

Walt Disney World 2009

Brian Graf — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:56:50 GMT

Lilly’s Two Year Portraits

Brian Graf — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:24:31 GMT

Learning F#

Brian Graf — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:24:44 GMT

It’s time I tried something new. Wish me luck.

The Remains of My Office

Brian Graf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:50:16 GMT

Meeting Santa

Brian Graf — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:27:04 GMT

This was taken on Christmas Eve 2008. Lilly’s hand is in front of her face because she is saying “Thank You” to Santa in sign language.

Trying out the new Windows Live Writer

Brian Graf — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:50:20 GMT

test update

Lilly's Playhouse

Brian Graf — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:45:21 GMT

Linq to File System

Brian Graf — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:36:56 GMT

I just finished watching DimeCast #15. It completely blew my mind. Part of me really likes the elegance of the syntax of using Linq to query the FS. The rest of me can't imagine the performance of joining files to directories in such a manner would be efficient. I need to dig in and do some side by side comparisons and get to the bottom of this. Sounds like the makings of an in-depth blog post.

Lilly Picks Her "No"s

Brian Graf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:12:01 GMT

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MacBook Update

Brian Graf — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:40:16 GMT

So, it's been over a month now since I purchased my MacBook on one heck of an impulse. After, buying it I must saw that I had a fair bit of buyers remorse. After all, I just had built a new desktop quad core PC a few months prior and I had a perfectly workable laptop provided by my employer. Did I really need another machine? Probably not. Fortunately, the remorse was very short lived. I have never worked with a better piece of computing machinery. Period.

Lets start with the battery life. It is incredible. Most nights, it can handle a full load of development, surfing, emailing, and gaming without being plugged in for the whole evening. Spending several hours out on the deck is finally an option. I can finally enjoy my backyard investment to it's fullest.

I assumed that I would spend most of my time using windows. After all, windows is what I know best. but that also hasn't been the case. With the exception of actual development work, I do everything in Mac OS X. When I code, VMWare fusion provides a seamless way for me to run Visual Studio without having to reboot into windows native.

I never have to reboot. Sleep mode just works. It's a great piece of equipment.