Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Programming (RSS)
I haven't been writing much here recently for a few reasons. 1. Seattle is *very* nice in the summer time. Why stay inside blogging when you can go to the Center for Wooden Boats in Lake Union , Pike Place market , or take a ferry to Bainbridge ? 2. Got
Read More...
Every person has a set of tools and whatnot for their development environment that they use & have grown accustomed to. For example, a couple of (publicly available) tools that I use day in and day out are TextPad and Beyond Compare . Another "tool"
Read More...
A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of my installs on my laptop started failing. I thought it was odd, but most of the things I install are pre-beta, so I figured that they hadn't yet started to support Windows Server 2008. Some things, out of beta,
Read More...
Note that there are tons of stories about backwards compatibility; for some of the best go see Raymond . For a sample application that I'm writing, I'm using .NET CF 3.5. I had upgraded from the version shipped with Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 to the one
Read More...
This starts a new series (I hope) of performance tips that you may/may not know about. This post is brought to you by Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook , in which I found this gem. It's on page 217 at the bottom if you have the book. The basic idea
Read More...
In my own time, I've been learning Objective-C for fun. I'm not sure why, perhaps I didn't feel I spent enough time in front of a computer. But I digress. One of the interesting things I've learned is that the following code works. Note that I assume
Read More...
Stupid mistakes are often the most painful. Take the following sample code. public class Sample { private int [] array = new int[32]; private int x = 0; public int Foo() { return array[x]; } public int X { get { return this.x; } set { #if DEBUG if (value
Read More...
Hand over your wallet InfoCard! I've been playing around with CardSpace and trying to get it to do what I need it to do : authenticate some user in a little 3-tier play app that I'm writing. It's not as simple to use as most people would think. Here's
Read More...
