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24 November 2006
.NET: I think I, we, will be using TimeSnapper
Yes, you heard it right, I think we will be using TimeSnapper .This can be very helful to me and my team mate to collborate and share screens on what are doing or what actually happened in a period of time. I don't know if we can drag images from TimeSnapper into Yahoo Messenger conversation directlly... Read More...
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23 November 2006
The best things are free...free developer tool licenses
I'm probably one of the luckiest developer ;) as I have my developer tools licensed, given to me for free. Some i won from simple quiz, some are just gift from friends. He'res a list. I won these tool during VS 2005 Launch Seminar in a Training Center, a complete suite of: Visual Studio 2005 Standard... Read More...
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12 November 2006
.NET:When caching degrades application performance
You might wonder how come caching can cause infinite loop and degrade application performance. ;) This afternoon I have been optimizing my project and one of my strategies is to do caching on code. But instead of getting faster pages, it gets worst and my partner complaints that it seems I'm getting... Read More...
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08 November 2006
L10N: The world is flat, start localization on your database
When you are developing software product to be catered to diverse customers, it must be a standard to localized your software. With .NET this has never been easy, on .NET 2.0 its even easier with striongly typed resource files. But localizing application must be part of the architectture and should not... Read More...
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08 November 2006
L10N: Changing cultureinfo on a multithreaded application/service
Today, I have written a service to be deployed on a server to manage creation/tracking of orders and manage sending different emails to customers. I designed it to be multi-threaded and at first I want to use System.Threading.Timer but its complexity is not suited on a simple server process like my requirement... Read More...
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27 October 2006
Unyte: Killer app for desktop sharing, technical support and client services
In as early as 3AM in the morning, tuldoklambat and I are testing a very cool tool for Skype , a killer application called Unyte . It allows you to share your desktop over Http protocol and you can easily manage and control a desktop remotely via a web browser. It works pretty similar like remote desktop... Read More...
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02 October 2006
.NET: Enhanced debugging with VS2005 Service Pack 1
I was about to install VS 2005 Web Application Project when it prompts me to update my visual studio so I downloaded the VS2005 Service Pack 1 here and succesfully installed it. Then I went out and back in again to resolve a reported issue on my project and I was surprised the yellow error page of ASP... Read More...
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21 September 2006
SQL Server: FullText's noise words
Last time I blogged about SQL Server Inflectional Fulltext search filters out artiles like "the", "and", "in" etc. This has caused me headaches than fun when a lot of my test cases for searching failed or returns irrelevant results. I just found out thru my boss that I can turned this off by deleting... Read More...
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21 September 2006
The Murphy's Law In Action
When I first read jenny's post on failing IBM xSeries server the first thing that comes to my mind is the Murphy's Law . I am preparing reply to her post but I can't say much except "If something can go wrong, it will" and "If something simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway". Interestingly i bumped... Read More...
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14 September 2006
.NET: Is there better way to view svn's non-versioned files
Most of the time I find it hard to detect If im missing some files not added on our source control, for instance in "usp" folder that contains hundreds of stored procedures, I would only know I missed something when I tried to load the project next time. Locating nonversioned files in the mid of hundres... Read More...
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13 September 2006
.NET: Make code works without UI, my first unit test
My TDD adventure keeps on surprising me dayafterday, I started to lessen the use VS studio debugger and I felt an increased productivity by not having a full build just for testing a single feature in code. With TestDriven.NET plugin installed it was pretty cool. I create a test for a feature, run the... Read More...
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08 September 2006
.NET: <untitled>Test
I've been struggling on these past few days doing some unit testing and tdd. hell yeah im starting to love it and now am still waiting for a new project so i can give it a real taste, bitter eh ;). But first i did a search and Jeremy Miller has always been very helpful to me. Not just on testing but... Read More...
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25 August 2006
.NET: Application Installation Strategies
Is it your first time to install your windows forms project and expect reinstall it again when a new version comes in? How many clients do you have? Are they geographically separated? How long did it take you to configure the application? Do you maintain configurations on App.config, separate file or... Read More...
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25 August 2006
.NET: Application Patch Management Strategies
I was very fortunate to experience a complete software development lifecycle in my current company and right now my project (codename: LISA) was sold out to several customers and deployed on different serves in known universities, colleges and leadership institutes. In near future we're planning to enter... Read More...
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