tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61731064994185853442011-07-07T17:29:38.057-07:00“A lone ameteur built the ark; a large group of professionals built the Titanic.”nibbles & bitshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05427362091660893848noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173106499418585344.post-23669915989560673962008-05-03T22:05:00.000-07:002008-05-03T22:19:11.372-07:00

I've been spending alot of time recently on learning to use Ubuntu, as well as some dynamic "P*" languages like Pyton and PHP.I must admit after spending so long in the world of the strictly staticly typed CLR, the switch to a language with such a lenient type system what quite a paradigm shift. My initial thought was something along the lines of, "OK, so you have classes with multiple

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My current financial situation has cause quite an uprooting of my normal daily schedule. The past week as gone like so:Mon-Tue: Sick. Diarrhea. Gross, I know. Spent most of my time between the back porch for fresh air and the bathroom.Wed-Thur: Not much at all. Spent alot of hours in front of my desktop playing Final Fantasy 7 for the sake of mind-numbing nostalgia.Fri-Present: Friday I

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Today I had lunch with the man that Bill Gates bought Word from.And I got fired.What a day.

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It seems Jeff Atwood's post on the Two Types of Programmers, as well is it's mother post, has missed a very important niche in the development community: The Microsoft Fanboys.These are the ones that jumped at the opportunity to develop with MONO, and competed in the Code Project's Race to Linux. The developers who read the C# 3.0 Language Specification just ot improve the CLS compliance of

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For better or worse, I spend a lot of time trying to explain real life situations in code.Below is the thought process of Paul McCartney when writing "Let it Be".Public Class Beatles Private hardship As New Death(Of Mother) Protected help As Mother Private WithEvents life As New Paul() Public Sub New() If help Is Nothing Then life.Experiece(hardship)

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Programmer.Must work be able to work unreasonable amounts of time, on impossible deadlines, with insufficient resources, inadequate compensation, conflicting orders, and be have ability to read boss's mind and accept responsibility for everything that goes wrong.

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This post should be put on a pedestal and bowed down to by millions.I think every developer on the planet that has had to dip into legacy code has been in the same situation as I was a month ago: "It's my fault that the stored proc sent out 15,000 of the same email? How was i supposed to know it was in a while loop? The loop itself was nested 300 lines deep with 300 lines within it! It took

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/* * Why the Internet cannot stop making references to MC Hammer. */namespace Paradox{ using System; using The90s; static class Program { static void Main() { Hit og = Hit.Create(); Console.WriteLine(og.StillCool.ToString()); // PM NOTE: fails unit tests. Hit meme = new Hit(

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I find it strange, as an enterprise software developer, that I can write 1000+ lines of code on a whim--without so much as building the application once. It's not that I have any particular level of trust in the fact that my code will work, it's just that... Well, here's an example:using System;using System.Collections;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Drawing;using

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The following is an idea I pitched to the head of our IS department. It's an SOA-like architecture, with some implementation details thrown in.Unfortunately, he wasn't impressed.A Transaction Queue-Based System· All requests for processing have a strict definition and structure.· All requests are sent to a request processing service on a central server and saved to a queue on disk.· A

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To Whom It May Concern:This company’s so-called “system” is in an irreparable state.The how and when of this atrocity’s collapse needs to beaddressed.Replacement of our current system with foreign methodologieswill only become a determent to the process and speed its inevitable demise.I place no specific blame on those whose ignorance may havecaused this lack of design, and no amount of meetings

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A whole collection of blogs have made their statements against Object-Oriented programming.I say one thing to all of you: It's all about who you are. In my opinion, developers, more than anyone else, reflect their personalities in their work. For example, I'm a very visual person; I always, always, always build my interface first. Now of course like any well designed software it changes over

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So after speaking with the resident multi-threading guru, I came to the conclusion that, albeit an obvious one, still disappoints me.See, the problem with my model was that I was trying to "push" the actions in the events onto the form instead of "pulling" the data in and forgetting about it. So unfortunately,public frmTestBed(NitonXL800 gun) { InitializeComponent(); if

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My adventures in .NET land have brought me to an interesting cross-roads.See, most of the actual code modification I do in any environment is refactoring and re-architecture of existing assemblies; my roots in OO leave me in a moral dilemma every time i see something like:Public Function GetProperty(Optional propName As String = "Any", _Optional vIndex As Long = -1, _Optional vType As

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main() { printf("hello, world");}main( ) { extrn a, b, c; putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');}a 'hell';b 'o, w';c 'orld'; public class HelloWorld{ public static void main( String[] args ) { System.out.println( "Hello world" ); }}... And my favorite...namespace HelloWorldApp{ public class HelloWorld { public static void main( String[] args ) {

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