John Dvorak has written an interesting column on Rajendrasinh B. Makwana. It's a little bit Xenophobic, a little bit protectionist and it also makes some good points that I've often wondered about.

When this story broke, I wondered why FNMA would hire H1-B contractors. I can understand HP or Intel to some extent. But FNMA is not doing anything that average U.S. programmers cannot do. What special skills did Makwana have? Perhaps his best skill was his pay rate?

I guess our own government is willing to "go foreign" in order to avoid U.S. wages? That certainly gives me warm and fuzzy feelings. Particularly since my tax dollars and your tax dollars are being delivered to this outfit by the trainload full.

Does make one think...

The answer is a resounding NO!

1. I have found an inconsistency between BlogEngine.Net and ScribeFire. I just happened to see the problem today.
2. If I post an article using ScribeFire, everything appears to be correct on the blog.
3. Next, if I decide to edit the entry in BlogEngine.Net's editor, I get two copies of the article.
4. If I delete one of the articles, both copies get deleted, however, you cannot see this from the browser where you are editing.
5. If I visit the blog using a different browser, I cannot see either article.

I chalked this up to some operation I was performing incorrectly. However, I think it's a problem in the BlogEngine.Net code and how it implements the blogging protocol BlogML.

I've discovered the source of a performance frustration I've had with VS 2005 ever since I started using it at work. I didn't realize there was an option to turn off background VSS tasks. Occasionally, our servers at work really slow down. When this happens, VS 2005 seems to lock up inexplicably. It turns out VSS tasks are running often in the back ground. Really often. About every five to 15 seconds it seems, based on IP logging. I have a solution with about 80 components. The overhead to continuously update the VSS icons is considerable. The figure belows illustrates what to change:

 

I hope this little discovery may help you as well.