Category: Programming
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
What can be said about Michael Feathers’ Working Effectively with Legacy Code that has not already been said? This book, along with a few others (for example, Code Completeand Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code ) belong on every programmer’s bookshelf. Michael defines “Legacy Code” as “Code without tests”. In this book, he shows […]
Continue reading Working Effectively with Legacy CodeAPRS-SCS
Last week, the developer of APRS-SCS, John – KB2SCS announced that he was dropping all support for APRS-SCS, as it is written in VB6, which is no longer supported by “the boys from Redmond”, aka Microsoft. At that time, John put the source code up on his Web Site. I started to talk with John […]
Continue reading APRS-SCSNot The Post but… Visual Studio on a Mac?
I still have not gotten my deep thought post written, the brain just has not been into it (hey, the leg has been bothering me, so..) Anyway, I’ve been thinking about getting a new Laptop (the current ‘personal’ laptop is a PIII based unit…) I’ve heard some good things about Macbook pros laptops runing Vista […]
Continue reading Not The Post but… Visual Studio on a Mac?Bloggings Been Light
Hi Gang (I know I’ve got at least 3-4 readers out there, hey, that puts me well above average) Blogging has been light, because I’ve been seriously thinking about a post. Last week, a bunch of different blogs posted about working alone and Agile/XP/TDD. I found it interesting, because this is for all intents the […]
Continue reading Bloggings Been LightA central place for Visual Studio hot fixes
can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=Hotfix Hat Tip:Neno Loje
Continue reading A central place for Visual Studio hot fixesA Basic Class Design Lesson
Hi Gang,I’m going through some OLD code today, probably written before classes, but looking at it, I realized it might be a good class design lesson for those not used to writing classes. The code was in a form, and was actually used multiple times – which by itself says the code should be in […]
Continue reading A Basic Class Design LessonAgile/XP programming and the OODA loop
Today, over at Inc.Com, Joel Spolsky of Pragmatic Programmer had an article called Fire and Motion, where he talks about getting your competition responding to YOU. It’s a really good post that I think you should read. When I was reading it, I was reminded of John Boyd‘s OODA Loop, and all of a sudden, […]
Continue reading Agile/XP programming and the OODA loopHow to Compress Virtual PC Hard Disks
As more and more of us use Virtual Hard Drives to test/develop different software, here is a great HowTo: Compress Virtual PC Virtual Hard Disks over at Kurt Shintaku’s Blog – HT to Kirk Allen Evans – via Jason Haley
Continue reading How to Compress Virtual PC Hard DisksALT.NET Leadership to suppliment the traditional .NET leadership
Jeremy Miller has (as usual) and interesting post on The need ALT.NET to supplement the traditional >NET leadership I can’t agree more. Right now, I think some of the best REAL WORLD developemnt stuff is coming out of ALT.NET. It seems Microsoft IS listening to a point (Unit tests in VS2008 etc) but…
Continue reading ALT.NET Leadership to suppliment the traditional .NET leadershipLinks – March 17th, 2008
First – Happy St Patty’s day!What is Alt.NET This may be subscriber only – but Taming Software Dependencies
Continue reading Links – March 17th, 2008