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August 2004 - Posts
More on autocomplete
30 August 04 05:55 PM
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
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TAB TAB TAB
30 August 04 05:29 PM
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.
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How do you ship software?
30 August 04 11:33 AM
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
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Refactoring the C# Express Starter Kit – Part 2: Organizing fields
21 August 04 10:18 PM
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
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Some good feedback on the Range post.
20 August 04 10:06 AM
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)
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Refactoring the C# Express Starter Kit
19 August 04 03:17 PM
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,
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Comparing ranges
19 August 04 10:52 AM
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
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Rope Boarding Mat
18 August 04 05:15 PM
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
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Fallingwater
18 August 04 10:33 AM
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
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Losing it all
18 August 04 08:41 AM
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
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Return from the Far East*
18 August 04 08:34 AM
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
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Help Make Blogs More Visible!
17 August 04 12:59 PM
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
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Old office; new office
05 August 04 09:21 AM
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 I'm not a professional
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Delaying email send in Outlook
04 August 04 04:59 PM
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. With
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