Related to the questions around TAB and ENTER are some questions around the new “autocomplete on identifier”. (I could swear I’ve blogged about this before, but I can’t seem to find it.) In VS2002 / VS2003, if you type ‘foo.’, you get a completion list...

We're going back and forth on a rather narrow design issue in IntelliSense. Suppose you're writing some code. (It's a stretch, I know.) You go to type an if/else: if (expr) { // ... } else // here { // ... } Here’s what happens when you type ‘else’. 1...

I surely don't need to tell you that we've been working on Whidbey for a while now. You probably wish we would hurry up & ship the thing. Me, too. However, we still have some bugs left to fix. Most were found by our QA, but many came from Ladybug...

Looking in RssView, I see a big mess. There are lots of fields. Some are related to each other & different from others, which suggest an Extract Class. Some are set at initialization time, while others change over time. Clearly there’s a difference...

Dithermaster says “it's *much* easier to find out of they DON'T overlap” and proposes: ! ( (end2 < start1) || (start2 > end1) ); If we apply DeMorgan’s Law, we get: (! (end2 < start1) && !(start2 > end1) ); And (end2 >= start1)...

Yesterday I decided to take a look at the code we shipping in the Beta 1 C# Express SKU for a screen saver. I was pretty disappointed in the quality of the code, so I decided to refactor. I’ve talked about some ideas about coding styles here on this blog...

Ryan Farley talks about comparing date ranges . In his post is this phrase “ First range represented by r1start to r1end and second range represented by r2start to r2end ”. Aha, a code smell! 2 things that are related should have that relationship represented...

My mom just bought another house. She keeps doing this. Nurse by day, real-estate mogul by night/weekend. I hope it works out for her. My brother & I were at the hardware store getting stuff to help her fix the place up, and found that they had spools...

While in PA, we visited two Frank Lloyd Wright homes. The first was Fallingwater . I didn't go inside, instead spending the time roaming the grounds. One of the neat things about the design is that it's hard to see. You can never really look at the whole...

2 days before the trip to the Far East , I lost my wallet. Looks like it fell out of the luggage on my bicycle on the way home. That’s a tough time to lose a wallet, because I really wanted that stuff for the trip. There was also a lot of cash, a lot...

The weekend was spent in rural Pennsylvania , celebrating the wedding of a dear old friend from college. Sunday was to be brunch + visit Kentuck Knob + drive to airport + go home. We left the hotel late, got hung up waiting for the slowest sandwich we...

There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few "A-List" blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don't get noticed. The...

I got to switch offices recently. Just moved a few down the hall, but the new one has a view of trees & bushes, instead of concrete & steel. Here's a picture of the old office, with Bob watching over me: Wow, it's really clear why...

All too often, I send an email and regret it a moment later. Maybe I bumped into Send before I was ready. Maybe I wrote something mean & nasty, and want to rephrase to something more constructive. Maybe I think of a better way to make my point...