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The holiday season offers a particularly difficult time for the IT industry. The office is in a clamor with parties, people trying to get their plans taken care of, and of course, year end deadlines. I can assure you that when people go to sleep on Christmas Eve that it will not be thoughts of pager support dancing in their heads. It can be particularly difficult to manage any processes during this period; while there is no real effective way to mitigate these issues, the holiday season can easily...
The Singleton gregoryyoung is the Page Editor for the C# and DotNET topic areas. This article continues his series on design patterns. To read more, see his blog. Nearly every programmer learns the singleton as their very first design pattern partially due its simplicity and partially to it being the first one listed in nearly every basic pattern book. It is a good introduction to the concept of design patterns and immediately people will have places within their own code to experiment with their...
http://sourceforge.net/proj... This week, I will be doing something a bit different for my article and I would really like to get some feedback from the EE community. On Friday afternoon of last week I was asked to write a little bit of code to log into a remote SMTP server and verify a user's email address. This naturally didn't take very long but it seemed like it should be rather common functionality; in fact I found a few libraries that were a couple hundred dollars each which offered...
In the aftermath of Katrina, I have been in contact with many developers and hiring managers throughout the world. In my dealings I have come upon a new perspective of modern software development particularly in the Microsoft .NET areas, although it applies to any object oriented environment. Please excuse my English as it is a second language behind C# at this point. The particular comment which I have heard numerous times from senior level people is, "We do not create large enough systems to benefit...
For the last newsletter I wrote a brief article describing what design patterns were and the educational benefits that they can have as they are generalized knowledge. I hope atleast a few of the managers out there read the article and realized that it may be a good idea to pursue this further with their staff. This week I will be writing about another kind of pattern which is directed at managerial staff. Before I go into the realm of the business anti-patterns I should first explain the concept...