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I was taken aback by the claim, mentioned by a speaker in an event I attended about two nights ago. The topic was about development in languages and concurrency, which particularly interested me. I don't know if you'll agree with the claim but I didn't and I guess the talk went downhill from...
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After using progressive browsers such as Firefox and Safari in my previous employers, imagine my dismay when I realised we were stuck with IE6. One of the things I missed as I had to step back and bear with old IE6 is the absence of the search bar. We're not allowed to upgrade to IE7 nor download...
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I saw this somewhere in my daily reading list (I religiously browse my Google Reader at the start of the day). I thought to myself that the blog author probably had negative experiences with programmers or architect types who place too much emphasis on design patterns. I agree that people who give too...
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The .NET world is eagerly anticipating the release of version 3.5 of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008 later this month . Naturally there is a build-up of technical discussions, events and online material about the features the new release is adding to the table. In the meantime, here I am studying...
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Yeah, I said enums are evil . Now I'm taking them back. I was forced to swallow my pride and use an enum for my current project. This is for representing the privilege level of the user. I guess the simplicity of the enum won me over, since one can easily compare enums with each other. Besides, the...
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When I start developing my first application using Visual Basic 6 the first thing that I consider was the performance. But then I realized that performance shouldn't be the first to consider. My idea is most of the time you should focus on writing maintainable code. Then replace only those slow moving...
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In light of observations made here and there , it is becoming clear to me that language limitations play a big part in making design patterns necessary. Or unnecessary . In other words, language deficiencies make it necessary to introduce complexity into code. In fact it was the master who told me that...
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That was a surprising email message I received first thing in the morning yesterday. I was awarded MVP for Visual Developer - Visual C#! Pardon the cliche but I really thought it wouldn't happen -- mainly because of my pro-open source stance . Anyway, thanks Microsoft! The only thing I take issue...
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The picture says it all...
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Ayende Rahien and Jeremy Miller brought forth the arguments in their respective blog entries, and I couldn't agree more. In fact I've seen that mindset first hand with my teammates in my previous employer. The first time I discovered test-driven development, I told my teammate about it. We were experiencing...
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I received an interesting article , dealing with the issue on the necessity of getting certified. I have to admit, that I'm one of those sitting on the fence. For one, some certifications' lifetimes are so short that they may not be worth it. An example of this would be Microsoft's .NET certifcations...
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Hi! Welcome to my blog. Hopefully, I'll be able to post a lot of stuff that you'll fnd helpful/useful/informative. Check back from time to time.
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Has this "philosophy" or approach in .NET development caught the attention of many yet? POCO of course is the .NET version of POJO (Plain Old Java Objects), which is the approach of designing Java business objects that do not depend on some container or environment like the monstrous EJB. I've been practicing...
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I've always had a soft spot in my heart for students. Maybe my former (programming) students would vehemently disagree with that. But I've always wanted to teach the things I've learned and applied in my craft to students. After all, I've also been a student (and I still am, a student...
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I was pretty upset with Alienware that I was bound and determined to get me a Laptop if it was even going to kill me. So, I figured since I have worked with Dell computers at work and they have been pretty reliable the past few years I could just order one of those Dell XPS, that I heard so much about...