December 2007 - Posts
This is the second-edition of a post I made a long time ago on a different blog. I'm posting it because of a post made by Eric Bowden about his new approach to personal email management....
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Scott Hanselmen posted this morning about aideRSS. I decided to run aideRSS over my blog to see what would the results would be. Apparently I have only one "Great Post"...
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Recently I was at lunch who two fellow developers. The discussion focused on various technologies and the future of technology as it seemingly always does when a group of nerds gather. The discussion somehow meandered it's way to Linux, where I admitted that I didn't understand or get it...
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I've used a Moleskine Ruled Notebook for a little over a year. In it, I keep track of blog ideas, meeting notes, phone numbers, to-do items, and...
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I'm reacquainting myself with Visual Basic. However at this point I'm seeing some strange behavior...
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Has this ever happened to you? You been asked to put together something quickly to demonstrate some functionality and it somehow has ended up in production? I have, and for that reason, I believe there is
no such thing as a prototype.
When I'm asked to see if something is possible, I, being a good pragmatic programmer, run off to implement a quick prototype...
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Programming languages these days do their best from keeping you from doing something stupid. We have compile time checking, "managed" code, and garbage collection. We've been led to believe that if you just write the code, in any fashion that meets the requirements of the project, that any missteps you may take in code will be corrected....
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Who ever thought this was a good idea? It feels wrong on so many levels.
Dim enableRegistration As Boolean = CBool(IIf(CBool(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "IsOnlineRegistration")), IIf(CInt(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "EventSize")) = 0 Or CInt(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "EventSize")) = -1 Or (CInt(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "EventSize")) - CInt(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "Registrants"))) > 0, True, False), False))
And since we code review like the mafia, put the poor soul out of his misery .
Original Article: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/2007/12/05/AGoodReasonToCodeReview.aspx
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Yesterday I posted about an issue I was having with Nant and Visual Studio 2008. The solution I found from Jeffrey Palermo ultimately only got me so far. First, let me say that ....
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