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Read a good article today: http://bokardo.com/archives... Far too often, I've heard developers say, "But it's easier for me to write it this way" without ever taking into account what that does for the user. KISS (Keep it simple stupid) does NOT necessarily apply to the developer. Sometimes keeping it simple for the user means making it more difficult for the developer. Forcing the user to do something complicated is forcing the user to serve technology, and that's bad!...
We're writing an app for a client and we're using WCF and Nettiers together in the app. One of the requirements of app is very good auditing. Every time data is picked up in the system, we need to audit it and let people know what happened. We wanted this to be transparent to the users, which meant that it should probably go into the DAL somewhere. We thought about Triggers (no user information, so you'd have to pass the user to everything), and finally settled on putting it in the save, update,...
Check out this article on News.Com. Big brother is watching. The technology is cool though. :)
Read an intersting article about WPF today. Wish I would have seen it when I was trying to get up to speed on WPF. Looks pretty good
This is in response to a comment about my last post. I expected something revolutionary and significantly better than what was currently on the market. Microsoft consistently does this with other applications. Sql Server is, in my opinion, FAR superior to Oracle and MySql. .net kick’s Java’s behind. Visual Studio is so far ahead of the competition that using anything else is painful. For those of you that live and die by Eclipse, VS 2005 is clearly a superior product. The XBOX 360 is also much better...
O.K.--so I got a shiny core duo 2 from dell the other day, and have vista loaded onto it. The performance thingy rates me as a 3.5 (because of the video card), and says I should be able to enjoy all of the snazzy new features of Vista.I start to tinker, and soon find that the Aero stuff is really only skin deep--as soon as you go into any of the dialog boxes for more advanced stuff (like the system dialog boxes, the "advanced properties" of the display, etc), you quickly find that this is just XP...
Does open source really work? I’m skeptical. A perfect example is the open source project NDoc. I’ve seen this with more than one project. A project goes open source by a company, supposedly to accept outside contributors, but few open source projects have contributors outside of those that started the project. At best, most successful open source projects only have a handful of contributors and are dependent upon large corporations funding development work on the project. Here’s my take on why:...
This is my first use of Windows Live Writer to post a blog. I don't know how it'll go, but I thought I'd give it a try and see if it behaves better, especially with posting code. Here's a snippet of code from a project I'm working on: /// <summary>/// Gets the default adapter./// </summary>public static Adapter DefaultAdapter{get{return (Adapter)CIConfiguration.Ad... Hmm--that didn't seem to be much different from using the web interface, other than I lost all of...
Had three interviews yesterday, all from very large companies. The first interview was unlike anything that I've ever experienced. Many of the questions were "masked" and the interview flowed like a conversation, not an interview. Very relaxing although I think back to all of the things that I missed and am left to wonder how well I did. It was a fun interview though. This position would require me to relocate, which is a huge downer for it, but we'll see what happens. The next interview was also...
I'm trying to use ApplicationSettings in the following scenario: The settings are not all completely defined at design time (think plug-ins, but not completely that) and can be added by clients over time. I can't find a way to make AppplicationSettings recognize new settings that weren't part of what it was compiled against. I would have thought that this would be something pretty basic that they would add. For example: <TestAppSettings.TestSet... <setting name="DefaultSetting" serializeAs="String">...
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