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Attacked by reserved keywords

Published 07-18-2007 7:05 PM | jokiz

One of our shipment application are used by a number of countries. It has a functionality to write files in an organized manner using country and gateway codes. In other words, files for Manila gateway are written inside PH->MNL folder. It has been...

Filed under: techie, trivia, windows

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 is out

Published 06-01-2007 8:52 AM | jokiz

Been using it for months now, download the update here .

Filed under: techie, blogging

Offline google reader browsing

Published 05-31-2007 2:36 PM | jokiz

Last time, gmail increased the attachment limit to 20 megabytes, now it's offline browsing of google reader feeds. I just noticed the new feature of offline reading of google reader through Google Gears (currently on beta). I previously had plans...

Filed under: techie, blogging

Legacy Code

Published 05-23-2007 1:10 PM | jokiz

Our boss asked us developers for our preferred developer books and we submitted our wishlists, weeks later they ordered all 20+ of them, whoa! all the books that we wished for, nice! I'm currently browsing through Michael Feathers' Working Effectively...

Filed under: techie, unit testing

Goodbye plumber

Published 04-26-2007 11:28 AM | jokiz

after a year of using bloglines , i have now been using google reader. i just love the the "all items" in "list view" mode. been familiarizing myself with the keyboard shortcuts (as usual) but for the meantime, you can subscribe to...

Filed under: techie

handling unique constraint violations

Published 04-24-2007 6:52 PM | jokiz

unique constraints are very common for database table designs in applications nowadays. there are two ways to safely code an application to cater for this unique constraint requirement. (1) do an existence check/query before doing the insert. (2) let...

Filed under: SQL, techie, concurrency

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

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

gmail shortcut keys

Published 02-23-2007 2:22 PM | jokiz

i have just started using the shortcut keys for gmail as shown here . as usual, i printed a copy and pasted it in my cubicle borders. i love it when they standardize navigation keys, the J and K keys for move up and move down selections are similar with...

Filed under: techie, keyboard shortcuts

Crashing windows update

Published 02-19-2007 10:09 AM | jokiz

I recently turned on Automatic Updates in my laptop and since last saturday, i experienced a crashing svchost process related to it after boot up. There were times that i couldn't access any MMC plugin application and even my control panel after the crash...

Filed under: techie

Nokia Text Message Editor now has menu shortcuts

Published 01-15-2007 5:24 PM | jokiz

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...

Filed under: techie, mobile

One reason why Gtalk is better than YM

Published 01-15-2007 4:34 PM | jokiz

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...

Filed under: techie

single letter variable names

Published 01-08-2007 11:37 AM | jokiz

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...

Filed under: techie, design guidelines

Decimal values cannot be used in Attributes

Published 10-06-2006 11:35 AM | jokiz

One of the things I like with MbUnit is the parameterized test methods with RowTestAttribute . This gives you the ability to write just a single test case to test a method with parameters. As I was coding my formula parser i bumped into a limitation on...

Filed under: .NET, techie

InstallShield 12 uninstall breaks TestDriven.NET

Published 10-02-2006 10:48 PM | jokiz

I have just uninstalled my Evaluation copy of InstallShield 12 which I used to setup our build server. Unluckily, my TestDriven.NET addin suddenly is not behaving properly. My officemate who also had his IS12 copy uninstalled currently have the same problem...

Filed under: techie, visual studio, tdd