October 2004 - Posts

• Refactoring and performance

  I'm currently reading Test Driven Development in Microsoft .NET . There's a lot of stuff in the book I like, but there was one thing that rubbed me the wrong way. In the "Refactoring by example" chapter, they take a prime number algorithm and refactor Read More... Posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:21 PM by dancre | 12 Comments

• Get a taste of Visual C# Express

  Dan Fernandez points to a tutorial on Visual C# Express that lets you walk through creating a simple notepad-like application. You get to what developing a WinForms app is like, and you get to see some of the really cool IDE features like the refactoring Read More... Posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:39 AM by dancre | 1 Comments

• Potential Malware for the Mac

  Macintouch is covering a report of malware . Sounds like it might not be real, but you should make sure your Mac has all of the latest security updates installed just in case. Read More... Posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:17 AM by dancre | 5 Comments

• Interview with Mac RSS aggregator authors on drunkenblog

  Drunkenblog has an interview with Mac RSS aggregator authors . It's interesting to see their perspective. It will be interesting to see how the syndication space grows. I think the business model issue is bigger than they make it out to be in the long Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:02 AM by dancre | 0 Comments

• WMPlugins.com

  WMPlugins.com is a great resource for customizing Windows Media Player . Read More... Posted Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:16 AM by dancre | 4 Comments

• Unit testing .NET code

  Unit testing is a very effective way to test code and find errors as early as possible. It also allows you to refactor code with much less fear of breaking something. The Code Project has a nice introductory article on unit testing code in the .NET framework Read More... Posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:35 AM by dancre | 0 Comments

• Mac Office 2004 Service Pack 1 released

  Office 2004 includes an auto update mechanism, so you should be alerted of the update in the next couple of days. You can also force it to check for updates from the help menu of any of the Office applications. Office 2004 is the first Microsoft Macintosh Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:25 AM by dancre | 5 Comments

• cmd.exe drives me crazy!

  I've been using cmd.exe more and more lately, and it's driving me crazy! I was spoiled for years with Apple's Terminal.app without even knowning it. It just seemed like the way a command line environment should work on a modern operating system. It's Read More... Posted Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:53 PM by dancre | 22 Comments

• Notepad2 is great!

  There were a series of blog posts about notepad2 a few months back. I downloaded it at the time, but didn't really end up using it much. Lately, I've had to do a lot more simple text editing. I've been using notepad2 and I love it! It's small and fast Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 10:05 PM by dancre | 4 Comments

• Great post from Omar on Virtual PC 7

  Omar just posted a great overview of the work done on Virtual PC 7 for the Mac. It's a great upgrade! I was around in MacBU for the first half of the release cycle and the project plans were quite ambitious. There are few projects with the technical complexity Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:52 PM by dancre | 2 Comments