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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:14 AM

Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #6

Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #6 Way back in my early career, I worked on a graphics program written in FORTRAN that was used to plot engineering data. It ran on Tektronix 4014 terminals. Our application - known as E.G.G. (Engineering Graphics Generator,
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:43 AM

Seven Deadly Sin of Programing - #7 - Excessive coupling

(these will be in reverse order...) #7 - Excessive Coupling We start out with a simple one. Coupling is obviously a necessary evil. The Console class, for example, wouldn't be able to send text through Win32 without being coupled to Win32. Given that,
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Monday, May 22, 2006 10:19 AM

Anybody working on an interesting hobby project?

Anybody working on an interesting hobby project? I finally got around to firing up my Atmel STK500 development board, after the untimely death of a wireless router gave me the perfect power supply to use. That will get used on some LED-based holiday lights
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:55 PM

Make your own motivational poster

If you're a fan of Despair, Inc ., now you can make your own. Motivator
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Friday, May 19, 2006 8:43 AM

Random sometimes, not random other times

From a email: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Customer c = new Customer(); c.Randomize(); Customer b = new Customer(); b.Randomize(); MessageBox.Show(string.Format( "object c random number = {0}, object b random number = {1}",
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:23 PM

My favorite driver's ed moment

One of the comments on my last post reminds me of a story. Back when I took driver's education - which would have been the fall of 1979 - one of the modules of the class was spending time in the "simulator". I used quotes around term "simulator", because
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:44 AM

Sacrifices

Sacrifices are part of parenting. And as a long-time parent, I've made a fair number of them. Sitting up with a sick child. Coaching soccer games. Going to plays and recitals. That sort of thing. You don't have to like it. You just have to do it, and
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:19 PM

Review - Operation Mindcrime II (Queensryche)

I own a fair number of Queensryche (yes, I'm missing the umlaut over the y (a sure sign of 1980s metal pretentiousness)) CDs, but the band has never been a favorite of mine, mostly because of the varying quality of their albums. Though they do get a few
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:53 AM

The Seven Deadly Sins of Programmers

A while back, I made an offhand comment about something being one of the seven deadly sins of programmers (/programming/developers/software engineering/coding/...). At the time, I really didn't have 7 things in mind, but after a little thought, I came
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:35 PM

Using GC Efficiently

Spending lots of time on C++ means I haven't been paying as much attention to managed code as I did in the past, and I missed an excellent series of articles by Maoni about the GC. They are: Using GC Efficiently – Part 1 Using GC Efficiently – Part 2
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:40 AM

New LINQ bits now available...

There's a new download of the LINQ bits available. I haven't had a chance to play around with it, but I hope to in the near future.
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:41 AM

Retire Shuttle Now

Dave Brody advocates retiring the shuttle now - or at least after servicing Hubble one more time. I've got to agree. A few things are clear to me: Shuttle is old, and getting older. Shuttle cannot fly the number of flights that make ISS a going concern
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Monday, May 08, 2006 4:11 PM

Yelling at car drivers...

While bicycles don't have horns, I do have some decent lungs, and every once and a while I'll yell *HEY* loudly at a car driver to get their attention before they do something stupid. It works often enough to make it worthwhile, and even when it doesn't,
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Monday, May 08, 2006 3:31 PM

C# Trivia Test Answers - Part 11

C# Trivia Test - Part 11 (My initial set of responses vanished into the bit bucket due to the wonder that is on-line blog editing, so you'll have to do with the following, absent most of the humor and wittiness that was present in the first version) Here
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Monday, May 08, 2006 2:10 PM

In case you were worried, I'm okay...

Zombies attack Seattle hospital
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:29 AM

C# Trivia Test - Part 11

Here we go, with the last installment of the series... Language Details 1) How is decimal different from other C# types? 2) What kind of constructor is not legal on structs? Why? 3) What’s the difference between “out” and “[out]”? 4) When you write ulong
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