March 2007 - Posts

passing keys vs passing instances and the versioned business object problem

Published 03-30-2007 7:08 PM | jokiz

i once joined a team in developing a procurement/bidding system in ASP.NET. it involved "project for bidding" creation, contractor's profile management (with lots of document uploads), and bid evaluation as the core functionalities. contractors have the...

Filed under: SQL, oop

phone interviews

Published 03-30-2007 6:53 PM | jokiz

i arrived home last tuesday and my roommate (who is also a .NET developer and an ex-officemate) is on the phone for an interview. the interviewer was from the US and her questions are very technical and trivial. the funny thing is my roommate all have...

Filed under: techie, lokal, jobs

autumn season

Published 03-28-2007 2:02 AM | jokiz

i believe this quarter of the year had the greatest number of resignees in our company. three probies have chosen to work in singapore, two of them will be joining barclays capital ( jop joined them last year) including a true gem cruizer . an ex-teammate...

Application.EnableVisualStyles

Published 03-20-2007 6:12 PM | jokiz

Excellent information about Application.EnableVisualStyles here . We're used to shipping a manifest file since we came from .NET 1.1. Another tidbit is how are the themes implemented with it, i can see that it is still using a manifest but from where...

Filed under: windows forms

subclassing generics

Published 03-20-2007 5:39 PM | jokiz

I saw my teammate months ago using a hashtable in creating a lookup type of business objects. Since we have just started using .NET 2.0, i told him about the new feature that comes with it that can be useful in his current task, generics . I told him...

Filed under: .NET

Persistence tests

Published 03-15-2007 11:12 AM | jokiz

We have been using NHibernate for most of our apps here in our company and having persistence tests for each business object in your integration test suite in my opinion is definitely a must. My current project which has minimal number of tests, most...

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

could not connect yahoo messenger using 8.1

Published 03-12-2007 12:04 PM | jokiz

i recently updated my yahoo messenger to 8.1 and i noticed last week that i could no longer connect using my office box. i asked our network admin to take a look at it and he told me that there were problematic updates on the latest version of yahoo messenger...

Filed under: techie

trust boundaries and testing

Published 03-01-2007 11:13 AM | jokiz

our current project which involves a client .NET windows application which emits data to an excel workbook to render different views of the data. data are written on hidden worksheets which functions as my datasource for the views and graphs being rendered...

Filed under: unit testing