After reformatting Allison's Acer Aspire One netbook for the third time, and it suddenly running really slow again shortly after the last reformat, It seems I found a fix for the problem: http://blog.ryankopf.com/2009/02/acer-aspire-one-running-slow-no-more.html Thank you, Ryan Kopf, whoever you are :)
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I really enjoyed watching this video on domains and command/query separation:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/greg-young-unshackle-qcon08
Here are the short quotes that had the greatest meaning to me:
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If you're in VB.NET using LINQ to NHibernate and you get this error on a simple query:
System.ArgumentException : Expression of type 'System.Int32' cannot be used for return type 'System.Boolean'
Then I've got an explanation and a fix for you.
Here's a query that will produce this …
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Timmy, my eight year old son, was going to feed the fish and couldn't get the cover off the can. So he turned it sideways to get better leverage, and pulling hard, succeeded in getting the cover off. The can, being sideways, dumped its flakey contents on the counter.
I …
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How do you know how far you can take something until you've taken it too far… at least once?
This little "proverb" (if I can call it that) has limited applicability, and could be grossly misapplied, but has some relevance to what I'm currently working on. At the moment I'm …
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Given an enumeration (any non-bitmasked enumeration, really), how should members of this type be persisted in the database?
public enum ClockStyle {
Digital,
Analog
}
ClockStyle.Digital will have an implicit numeric value of zero, ClockStyle.Analog will take the value of one. Should the database column be a string or numeric …
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A while back I started noticing the word "SOLID" showing up on various good tech blogs. SOLID is an acronym describing five good software development principles.
When Scott Hanselman interviewed "Uncle Bob" with his latest podcast, I was excited to see it. Listening to it was no disappointment – it's a …
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I found this article insightful. Since taking IDesign's Architect's Master Class this past summer I've been putting more thought into what constitutes a "facet" of a system that should be pulled into its own class in the name of the Single Responsibility Principle. The article develops some basic "why's" along …
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