A technical blog I follow recently posted a side-note about some indie sci-fi books he was enjoying. I started reading the David Birkenhead series and I found it so exciting that I finished the series as far is available so far. There were a few little sections in Midshipman that …
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I've never before had a business book that kept me turning pages like The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Someone on one of the blogs I read suggested this so I requested it from the local library. When the 384-page paperback showed up I groaned - I do not usually …
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After trying to Google this for the fifth time, and writing it from scratch for the seventh time, I'm sticking this snippet here. In AJAX apps, it's always made sense to me to do JSON both ways, even though the jQuery default is form-data up and whatever down. Once ASP …
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This PowerShell script recursively finds all .csproj files in a directory and sets "Treat warnings as errors" to "All" for every one of them that doesn't already have it set. I definitely prefer this compilation option, but on larger systems getting those all flipped can be a tedious process.
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A quick check of where we're at in this large book. The main structure starts inward-most and works out:
To see Integrity's importance in overall credibility …
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When building web applications with sophisticated client-side behavior (i.e., you have a lot of JavaScript) I work hard to define loosely-coupled JavaScript modules. Intentional developers strive for structured and modular server-side code, but because of JavaScript's history we tend not to take the same care with it. We then …
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Sometimes when testing you need to repetitively restore a database back to a certain point in time. For very large databases the regular SQL restore can take quite a while. It seemed to me that using snapshots instead of regular backups cut this restore down quite a bit.
To Create …
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Quick chart to clarify which VB.NET operators one should use always.*
| Never Use | Instead, Always Use: |
| IIf(x, y, z) | If(x, y, z) |
| And | AndAlso |
| Or | OrElse |
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* Always means "pretty much always." There may be some very rare, strange cases to use the "never use" items.
** Logical Awesome …
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The Speed of Trust appears from here to be broken down into Five Waves of trust; these waves move from the inner-most out. That is, it begins with changing yourself, then working out to the people you interact most often with, and continuing out to society at large:
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Uncle Bob suggested a small software estimation exercise in a recent blog post, Why is Estimating So Hard?
My best-case, nominal, and worst-case estimates were x, 2x, and 4x, respectively. My actual time spent was 3.4x, and while the final code worked I wasn't real happy …
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I heard about this new book, Notes to a Software Team Leader, on a podcast on my way to work this morning. Below is the "Manifesto" of the book; upon reading it I feel the book has potential to have insightful and helpful content - I think it aligns with Nexus's …
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