Chris Canal

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January 2008 Entries

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has an interesting post on a Clipboard replacement called ClipX. I''ve just installed it and really am left confused why something similar hasn't been introduced to Windows in all this time
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Estimations isn't one of my strongest skills, so I eat up any information I find on it. I've recently came across Mike Griffins fantastic blog (http://www.leadinganswers.... on agile project management. He's just posted Top 10 Estimation Best Practices which I would strongly recommend for anyone that want to work on their estimation skills...
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Has anyone over came across this before? Randomly Visual Studio 2005 will switch the keyboard settings from UK to US. Only is one instance though, if I open another, it will be unaffected. Very stange
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I've being considering using reflection within a classes .ToString() method, something along the lines of this: public override string ToString() { StringBuilder toString = new StringBuilder(); PropertyInfo[] props = GetType().GetProperties(); foreach (PropertyInfo prop in props) { toString.AppendFormat("{0} : {1} || ", prop.Name, prop.GetValue(this, null)); } return toString.ToString(); } Is this smelly code...
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I'm currently just over halfway through this book and just wanted to post a hearty recommendation! It's by far one of the best books I've read in a long time! I like the conversational style Jimmy Nilsson has taken, it makes the content far more accessible and easily understood. I've ready a few lukewarm reviews about the book, mainly about the book not being as packed with code examples as it should be, but I don't have a problem with this. The books covers enough to allow me to get my head around...
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It's that time of year again, and here's another blog started with the best of intentions! As with a lot of developers, starting a blog is one of the steps I'm taking to becoming a better developer. Here are the other steps I'm planning: Start a blog and keep posting Tada! Now to keep posting... :o) Make one substantial blog post/webcast every 2 weeks Although I want to post regularly, I also want to write something more like an article every 2 weeks. These posts will probably be about doing something...
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