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Monday, July 28, 2008 2:34 PM

Make your code more maintainable: The evils of the Return statement

What does it mean to make code more maintainable? Certainly obfuscated code is hard to understand, by definition. A big part of maintainability is making it easier for others to read and understand what the code is doing. Your code may have been working
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Friday, June 06, 2008 12:36 PM

Use a dictionary to help create a mnemonic

I was using a program that was yet another TLA and I wanted to create a mnemonic to help me remember what it was. One of the letters was “k”, so I wanted to find a word that starts with “k” Simple: load a dictionary, search for words starting with “k”
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:42 PM

How to interrupt your code

I received a question: Simply, is there a way of interrupting a vfp sql query once it has started short of closing down the process ? I am running some complex queries on very large datasets which can sometimes take many minutes to complete. Typically,
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:54 PM

Examine .Net Memory Leaks

Writing programs using .Net is very productive. One reason is because much of memory management is “managed” for you. In C, C++ and other “native” languages, if you allocate memory, you’re responsible for freeing it. There were stopgap measures, like
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