A screen exists that allows users to edit the tools required for a procedure. I needed to change this screen to be a general "procedure configuration" screen that also allows users to manage the invoice line items that typically go with a procedure.
The prior setup already had a parent-child …
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As a software development professional, I use blogs and podcasts to keep on top of what's going on in this technical world. Here are the ones I use most:
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With many object-oriented computer languages there is a difference between an empty object and a null object. I often come across code which understands there is a technical difference between empty and null, but doesn't properly use the semantics of these two concepts. The semantic difference is important. Professional developers …
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I think my favorite programming book of all time is The Pragmatic Programmer. It was the first introduction I had to being more intentional with my programming. There were certain types of programming patterns that felt good, but I didn't know why. This book taught me why those things were …
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Near the end of .NET Rocks show #582 Richard Campbell explains hyperthreading in such a way that I feel like a hardware expert.
The guest, Scott Hanselman, has a 6 core hyperthreaded processor, which shows up at 12 cores in Windows Task Manager. How many cores does this CPU actually …
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A coworker sent me this today; this idea had never crossed my mind:
Not sure if you've already got something setup to automatically update your svn checkouts, but thought I'd mention this. I just created a .bat file:
TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:"C:\Code\Path\to\Proj1" /closeonend:1 …
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Update: Being about three years old, this post is pretty much obsolete. You can get this behavior, and many more convenient asynchronous compositions, with a JavaScript "Promise" library. See, for example, jQuery.when() or Q.js.
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In some JavaScript I needed several independent items from the web server, and so …
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After listening to .NET Rocks Episode 562, "Teaching Kids Programming," I downloaded Small Basic again to play around a bit. I uploaded a little triangle fractal program that's available here:
http://smallbasic.com/program/?ZTR830
Here are a couple notables:
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If you use log4net for logging in the traditional way you end up having a lot of classes with the following line:
Private Shared mLog As log4net.ILog = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType)
This is the VB version of the recommendation from the log4net FAQ (see the …
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CodeMinder: to remind myself of stuff that I usually have to look up each time I do it.
Notice the unnamed default in the following line:
alter table test add col1 int not null default 1
This creates a default constraint in the database that is named something like "DF__test__col1__182C9B23 …
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CodeMinder: to remind myself of stuff that I usually have to look up each time I do it.
To delete all PersonAlternativeName nodes from XmlColumn of the People table:
with xmlnamespaces( 'http://mydomain.com/person/extension/0.1' as px) update People set XmlColumn.modify('delete //px:PersonAlternateName')read more
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CodeMinder: to remind myself of stuff that I usually have to look up each time I do it.
If a People table has a column named XML, and the XML column may specify multiple PersonAlternativeName entities, then to get all PersonAlternativeNames in a single result set use CROSS APPLY or …
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