Category: Programming

Links for March 14th, 2007

Posted on March 14, 2008 in Blogs,Programming by KG2V
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5 ways to Engage Employees The Ribbon He seems to like them – I think they are the worst thing I’ve seen in years. I can never find what I want Linq2SQL, thoughts after a few hours of leaning Some observations from Jeremy D. Miller Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

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Developer Tools

Posted on March 7, 2008 in Programming by KG2V
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I don’t think I’ve ever made a list of MY favorite developer tools. First some background. I’ve been at least a part time developer since 1982. Since the late 80s, I have been pretty much a full time developer. Yes, during part of that time I did operational stuff with the software I wrote, but […]

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Feeling Frustrated

Posted on March 6, 2008 in Programming by KG2V
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Today, I’m working on a VB 6.0 application. After a couple of years of working almost exclusively in .NET, boy is it driving me nuts The WORST part? I’m adding a form and some classes to an application that is about 90% done being ported to .NET

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Vista, and what went wrong…

Posted on March 6, 2008 in Computers,Programming by KG2V
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First, let me say I use and LIKE Vista. I designed the PC It’s on to well exceed what turns out were political and not technical minimums. I also chose (wisely IMHO) to run the 32 bit version of Vista. Part of my reasoning for all of this is that by trade, I’m a software […]

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mbUnitForms

Posted on August 10, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Today, mbUnitForms was announced. It’s a port of nUnitForms. Might be a reason to switch to mbUnit

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SQL Server Monitor Gadget

Posted on August 9, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Conchango today has released a SQL Server Sidebar widget. That should be fairly cool Now if they would only let us use Vista at work

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New Software – Get them while they’re hot

Posted on August 8, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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Oooh – some new software for the development world:NUint 2.4.2 – the defacto standard in .NET unit testing softwareCode-Rush and Refactor! Pro

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Barriers to Agile Development

Posted on August 8, 2007 in Programming by KG2V
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I just ran across an interesting blog post RE the Barriers to Agile development at barrier to agile development Personally, I can see how Agile and TDD work. MY personal biggest barrier is that MOST of my development time these days is spent porting REAL legacy code – VB 6.0 stuff (some of which were […]

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Merged Post III

Posted on June 13, 2007 in Computers,Programming by KG2V

Friday, June 1, 2007IS Code our enemy? (Computers – not Morse) This Morning, Jeff Atwood over at “Coding Horror” wrote an article The Best Code is No Code Commenting on Code is our enemy over at Skrentablog I happen to think BOTH posters are right and wrong. I’ll agree with Jeff that Brevity is extremely […]

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Merged Post 1

Posted on June 13, 2007 in Computers,Programming by KG2V

Programmer Productivity Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror has a great post on the relative speed of various CPUs when doing common programming tasks at . I wish I could get my bosses to understand this. I work on an old 530 Mhz single core PC, with 1 gig of Memory, and that’s because I […]

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