Comments on: True Orange Génoise

By: Jill @ Jillicious Discoveries

Jill @ Jillicious Discoveries — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:26:55 +0000

Great step-by-step photos! Your cake turned out beautiful! I really enjoyed reading your post.

By: ButterYum

ButterYum — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:02:43 +0000

I love reading your posts Kristina… so funny. Your cake turned out wonderfully!

I’m not a fan of chocolate and orange together, but your creamsicle idea sounds great!

ButterYum

By: Hanaa

Hanaa — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:36:08 +0000

I figured Microsoft’s TFS would be a competitor of yours We use MS SharePoint for requirements. Not ideal but it’s OK. Years ago I used to work on embedded systems using Windows CE. Pretty cool stuff. Unfortunately that company shut down. I think I’d better stop before I start chasing visitors away (they’ll think they hit the wrong blog) )

By: anitsirK

anitsirK — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:38:49 +0000

Our product can be used for any programming language, and some of our customers don’t even use it for their source code control, but use it for everything else in their development process — requirements, tech specs, defect tracking, build management, test, etc. A large number of our customers do embedded systems for things like car parts, mobile devices or ATMs. Microsoft’s TFS is definitely a competitor of ours.

One of my colleagues has been responsible for testing with VS2010 — so far so good, but who knows what they’ll change that will break our integration with VS between now and official release!

(Sorry to the rest of you for geeking out. )

By: Hanaa

Hanaa — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:26 +0000

That sounds cool. Is the tool built specifically for Java developers? We use Microsoft’s TFS (Team Foundation Server) for source code control/versioning, bugtracking, and CI (Continuous Integration). Our SCM team is mainly responsible for the CI part. I use Visual Studio but I know people who use Eclipse (and some who have used Eclipse in the past) and they seem to like it. I can’t wait for VS2010 though. So many cool features ) I got a preview at DevConnections in Vegas late last year!

By: anitsirK

anitsirK — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:37:17 +0000

Hanaa, I mostly do Java, though I picked up some C# last year when working on an integration with Visual Studio for my employer's product. We do SCM (Software Configuration Management) and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and various other TLAs (three-letter acronyms). At its simplest, we make a product that will version your source code and track your bugs, but it really can handle a whole lot more than that. I've mostly been working on IDE integrations since I started here. Right now, it's Eclipse.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:45:48 +0000

Go you for making two genoise. I agree completely with you about the ganache – I think it is one of those love/hate things.

I loved that your Mum taught you fractions via baking. Win win!

I have similar daydreams about a little cafe, great cakes, excellent coffee somewhere in the sun. But not sure I would have the necessary stamina to take it past the daydream and into the 7 days a week slog.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:57:44 +0000

Your cake is super tall!

I also love bringing sweets to work. Although I don’t take it as a compliment when they disappear. We recently got a box of really dry, strange-tasting cookies from a client and even though everyone agreed they were awful. They were gone in a couple days (it might actually have been a record for length of time food has lasted at the clinic!).

By: Hanaa

Hanaa — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:25:45 +0000

First, your cake looks awesome. I like the swirls on top of the cake. The color of the curd looks great too. Second, how cool that you’re a programmer. I’m a SW engineer, doing C# in .Net 3.5. You?

By: anitsirK

anitsirK — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:54:32 +0000

Vicki: I’ll definitely save you a seat. For the creamsicle, I was thinking of the white chocolate custard+ butter combination (before adding the lemon curd) from Woody’s Lemon Luxury cake. I don’t know if Rose has that combination listed on its own somewhere, but as far as I was concerned, it was fantastic. That or just a vanilla bean buttercream. I’ll definitely let you all know if/when I make it.

As for the tall cake, when I made it back in the fall, I honestly don’t think the flour was 100% incorporated, because I was too worried about overmixing and deflating it. I remember picking a couple of small clumps of uncooked flour out of the cake when I torted it… so while it may have been pretty, I don’t think it was quite right.

Just wanted to add that I didn’t mean to give the impression that Mom was trying to stomp all over my dreams. She really did (and still does) want the best for me, and I definitely appreciate her having encouraged me to expand my childhood notions of ‘dream job’. I really do enjoy the work that I do, and if I didn’t have the sort of brain that liked logic and precision, I wouldn’t have clicked with that course I took in high school. I also really enjoy the look on any random co-worker’s face when I tell him (it’s mostly “him”s that I work with) that I have cake in my cubicle, when he’s in the middle of a hard problem.

(I recently had a good conversation with a guy I sat next to in that computer course in high school, at my 10 year high school reunion. We used to compete over who could finish the most programming problems the quickest. I usually won. He now works for Microsoft.)