January 2007 - jokiz -

working around a project with minimal unit tests

coming from a project with number of unit tests in it (hundreds i believe), it's hard to work around our current project without it. we're near the release of the project and we still have 31 unit and integration test cases for the .NET client application...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 9:40 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, continuous integration, xUnit

Refresh issue of AnkhSVN

There is a refresh issue on the version 1 release of AnkhSVN addin for visual studio last year (i thought it was already the RTM version 1.0 release, it was just RC4). if you are a tortoisesvn committer, you'll notice that the ankh refresh command at...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 9:24 PM by jokiz

Filed under: visual studio, subversion

bogus sms

i received a bogus sms for the first time this afternoon asking for a 5 peso load indicating that it was a new number without stating who it was. I tried to call the said number but i received a "network busy." i recalled an issue before where some syndicates...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2007 9:59 AM by jokiz

Filed under: mobile, lokal

trapped in try-catch all code structure

i was trying to incorporate my Excel workbook with our client application yesterday when i was caught with the try-catch all construct that my teammate is fond of. basically it's just a structure to most of his methods starting with a try block and ending...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 6:13 AM by jokiz

Filed under: design

Constructor-intensive classes

I find it ironic to see a number of processing being done just in the constructor of a class. You're just supposed to create an instance of it and initialize some of its members, how come it already does a number of things. Isn't this a code smell?

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 6:05 AM by jokiz

Filed under: design

Maximum Daily Withdrawal Limit for BPI

I paid my friend last weekend so i withdrew P20,000 from my BPI ATM which I later found out to be the maximum daily withdrawal limit. That was around 11pm. I was surprised the next day that i couldn't withdraw any cash so I inquired through their hotline...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2007 11:47 AM by jokiz

Filed under: lokal

Windows Installer Cleanup Utility

There are times when you fiddle with an installer and when you attempt to unintall it, you can't since you are encountering some fatal errors. I once found a solution to this using msiexec command line but i found a utility from microsoft today which...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2007 11:27 AM by jokiz

Filed under: installer, tools

Nokia Text Message Editor now has menu shortcuts

I have just updated my PCSuite to their lates version (6.82.22.0) and i'm glad that they have now included menu access keys for keyboard power users like me for sending message, replying, forwarding, etc. Now i can use the said software again without...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2007 5:24 PM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, mobile

One reason why Gtalk is better than YM

As of the moment, yahoo messenger is my primary Instant Messenger, the problem with it is when i wanted to search through my IM logs/history. Since I am using a different pc at home and at work, there are times that the said information is found on the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2007 4:34 PM by jokiz

Filed under: techie

VBA Programming update

I have started coding the vba project for weeks now and it has been stressful, :(. I am using a somewhat tdd style of programming with vba with a module to run all the tests for each of my class modules. I have always encountered an error during debugging...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2007 5:04 PM by jokiz

Filed under: vba

FluentInterface

So that's what they call it, FluentInterface . I've noticed this when i first encountered query construction in NHibernate in constructing a query using a criteria: IList cats = sess.CreateCriteria(typeof(Cat)) .CreateAlias("Kittens", "kt") .CreateAlias...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 9:46 AM by jokiz

Filed under: design patterns

Cannot empty clipboard from excel

I experience the cannot empty clipboard error message today again which i encountered last year: I did a search and found this .

Published Mon, Jan 01 2007 4:28 PM by jokiz

Filed under: bug

single letter variable names

If j(i) < 1 Then m = m + j(i - 1) Else m = m + j(i - 1) - 1 Single letter variables are good for iterators, but if integer variables will involve coditions such as the statement above, better use a more descriptive variable or refactor the said line...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2007 11:37 AM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, design guidelines

MyGlobe rebates

I don't know the criteria of Globe's rewards program but this is the second time that i will be rewarded through their rebates program. My plan is @ 800 monthly and they are currently giving me P20,000 worth of rebates deductible to my monthly bill for...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2007 3:48 PM by jokiz

Filed under: lokal

vshost files in bin folder

i was surprised to see two new files in the bin folder of our windows application project (<application name>.vshost.exe and <application name>.vshost.config files). post from here says that it is an optimization for visual studio debugging...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2007 10:02 AM by jokiz

Filed under: visual studio

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