Jul18
OneNote 2010 is a great product. I have been using OneNote daily for a couple years now. It has become my default repository for important information. - Tasks lists - Design before I build software solutions for work - Meeting notes - Class notes The great thing about OneNote is that it is a three dimensional space (notebooks, sections, pages) instead of a one dimensional spa...
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Sunday, 18 Jul 2010 09:41.
Jul10
I forget at times that Software Engineering is a young discipline. At times I am frustrated that it is not easier to measure good software and good software developers. The following gives some insightful perspective: -------------------- Measurement can progress from lower to higher scales as societies, organizations, and practices mature. An illuminating example: We can imagine, fo...
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Saturday, 10 Jul 2010 01:36.
May22
It was cool to discover that Channel 9 linked to my blog post on how RAM disks do not speed up Visual Studio: Joe Nalewabau and Dan Fernandez talk about my blog. Starting at minute 19:50, Dan says: Dan: "Joseph Fluckiger", I hope I am pronouncing that right. Joe: "I'll let you handle that one". Dan: "Probabaly for the better." :) Dan: “We tal...
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:22.
May22
I discovered a great little .NET developer tool yesterday: LINQPad. I needed to write a LINQ statement with a Group By and was having trouble figuring it out. While poking around on stack overflow, someone suggested this tool. But even better, the most useful application of this little application is the ability to quickly write pieces of code. It has a nice little interface which applies indent...
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:06.
Apr11
I recently decided to go back to school to get a degree in software engineering from the University Of Texas at Austin attending the executive format offered by the engineering department. Is it worth it? What is it like? You can read more on the UT website, but below I will give you my personal perspective, the answers to the questions I had when deciding whether to pursue the degree. First que...
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Sunday, 11 Apr 2010 11:08.
Apr11
I’ve been running an SSD as my primary drive for a few weeks now and it performs quite well without issues. Visual Studio build times are cut way down which for a huge project like the one I am working on means savings of tens of seconds per build, which is huge. Outlook doesn’t hang. Boot up and shut down are much better. Total cost: $260 + $50 = $310. Using winsat tool: Patriot Torqx SSD 6...
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Sunday, 11 Apr 2010 11:01.
Feb3
Stackoverflow.com is a fantastic online resource for answers to technical questions. There are several reasons that Stackoverflow.com is better than other sites. Jeff Atwood, who is the founder of stack overflow described the site succinctly as "expertsexchange.com without the evil. :)" The Webster's type definition would be: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site collaborat...
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Wednesday, 3 Feb 2010 07:45.
Oct13
The biggest announcement about TFS 2010: "Price – We’re not quite ready to announce the pricing and licensing for 2010 yet but I can tell you that it will be at least as easy and cost effective to get as SourceSafe has been. Stay tuned for more info on this." great post. That means that instead of $20,000 for licensing (current cost of TFS for a small development team), I am speculat...
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Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009 09:11.
Oct6
Some interesting statistics about the popularity of JQuery from the JQuery conference. - Microsoft.com uses JQuery! - 21% of all sites on the Internet use JQuery! This research is done by Google: graph ...
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Tuesday, 6 Oct 2009 11:44.
Sep26
The DataGeneral class provides access to the most often used features of ADO.NET in a simple-to-use class boosting developer productivity. DataGeneral is lightweight for maximum performance. It employs Microsoft best practices. DataGeneral provides the best features of Enterprise Libraries Data Application block. In my experience, I like the Enterprise libraries Application Blocks to learn wh...
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Saturday, 26 Sep 2009 10:29.