November 2005 - Posts

29 November 2005
Microsoft Listens: TDD Guidelines was dropped off
In my previous post I have mentioned part of Microsoft Guidlines to Test Driven Development. Aparently, this guidlines gained tremendous reactions and very low rankings from the TDD community. http://codebetter.com/blogs/scott.bellware/archive/2005/11/21/134910.aspx http://codebetter.com/blogs/scott... Read More...
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29 November 2005
Finished testing my wireless application
I spent couple of hours trying to configure a Netgear WG102 wireless acess point. This hardware is so simple and so easy to setup, however the user manual lacks any note that will inform us that system reset will take 30 seconds or more to take effect. We spent several hours configuring this last friday... Read More...
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15 November 2005
Software Pre-release (like CTP) or Hosted Demo
As part of every product development lifecycle we wanted to pre-releases pieces of the software to targeted audience for them to study and evaluate. I have been thinking for few days how can we do this, our inital plan was to produce a CTP CDs to be distributed to our targetd customers and potential... Read More...
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14 November 2005
Validation of viewstate MAC failed
Everyday I'm encountering this error once in a while but it was realy hard to reproduce and very undeterministic. I find it hard to diagnose where could have the error occurs. Googling around, i still havent found the answer but end up with discussions each one explaining what is ViewState. No, I mean... Read More...
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11 November 2005
When Handling Exceptions, which one is better
As a student of experience I often caught in a situation where I have to decide which is better to implement, how to uses best judgement on the situation, and technically how I can I justify my solution. So here I am presenting two scenarious to consider and I hope you can post post your arguments and... Read More...
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10 November 2005
Yet Another Javascript Error
Today, I spent several hours trying to debug a very very simple javascript script as part of my Web Online Public Access Catalog (Web OPAC) project. This script didnt perform my expected result. It even forces me to lookup my old-scrapped javascript DOM bible but it still fails me.. Feeling hopeless... Read More...
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09 November 2005
VS2005 Code Editor Weird Error Causes Failed Compilation
Just this evening I tried to change my code model (from code behind to code-inside or inline mode) on most of my user controls. I want to remove the code behind because I believe its overkill to have another set of code files for a simple Page_Load event or few control event handlers. As i gone thru... Read More...
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08 November 2005
Just Finished Installing Visual 2005 Profesional
I just finished installing Visual Studio 2005 Profesional on a separate machine. The process went smooth but realt takes sometime to complete despite its custom installation only. At first hand, i am impressed because its more responsive and faster than beta2 given these two machines have same hardware... Read More...
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07 November 2005
Notify and Cancel property change on an object
The following code allows you to raise event before and after the request to change the property of an object. You can extend this to implement logic as validation on your event handlers. I used this also to notify or update the UI if certain property of the object must be observed like State, Connection... Read More...
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04 November 2005
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Unit Testing Framework
I've been playing whole day on VSTS Unit Testing Framework. I think its realy working great, the GUI tool was realy good and easy to use. Also supports debugging your test project. The VSTS is a suite of developer tools and the unit testing framework is just a part of it. I have'nt done much out of nUnit... Read More...
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02 November 2005
PHINUG at ACM Asia - Manila
Last saturday we we're able attend the 2005 ACM Asia Inter-collegiate Programming competion. ACM is one of internationally recognized academic compeition challenging students on application of algorithms and solutions. Its fun to see those students from different universities and collegese in asia. I... Read More...
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