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A 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, 2008Links for March 14th, 2007
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
Continue reading Links for March 14th, 2007Developer Tools
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 […]
Continue reading Developer ToolsFeeling Frustrated
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
Continue reading Feeling FrustratedVista, and what went wrong…
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 […]
Continue reading Vista, and what went wrong…Kitchenaid Lemon
My wife and I closed on our home back in August 2001, and the dishwasher that was there failed before Thanksgiving. Buying a new dishwasher was a “no brain” decision. My parents had 2 kitchenaids at that point (they are still on the 2nd), and in my old house, I had a Kitchenaid the last […]
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