Connecting ideas to code
Writing code’s not that hard. Getting it work correctly isn’t that hard either. What makes things difficult and lowers productivity is change. Visual Studio.NET, as you are probably well aware, is quite a different beast than VS 6.0. Features that we took for granted before, such as ClassWizard, are now gone or integrated into the [...]
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Alright, so that’s probably the one of the most overused blog titles in history (maybe not… google only shows 24 hits) but VisEmacsDotNet — how’s that new name coming, btw? — can send files to Emacs when you invoke the “Send To Emacs” command button. As an added bonus, a new feature of the VS7 [...]
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Finally! I have custom bitmaps on my toolbar and menu items. I’ve been squinting at my monitor for days trying to solve this and other issues… it turns out the problem was because I had the value of SatelliteDLLPath set to ” [TARGETDIR]“. Did you see the leading space? I didn’t for about a week. [...]
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You never know what a little code reorganization will do. A little refactoring here, a little bit of paranoia there and — voila! — there’s the VisEmacs menu in the Tools menu. And here I had given that up for dead. Now if I could only figure out why my satellite dll won’t load….
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I must be some special kinda stoopid. It just *cant* be this hard to add a custom bitmap to a toolbar, right? Can it? From the AddNamedCommand docs: MSOButton Required. Indicates whether the named command’s button picture is an Office picture. True = button. Bitmap Optional. The ID of a bitmap to display on the [...]
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Feature Branches
Martin Fowler has a good article on cherry picking features to compose a release. Check it out so that the next time your manager wants to pick and choose what to include in a release you’re ready with why it’s not that easy1 (0)
Finding style as an engineer
Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too. (0)
Fixing bugs
Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is. (0)
Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions
Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.
Go forth and read! (0)
Stretchy Designs
If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout in terms even engineers can understand. (1)
Is Google Evil? Here's Proof!
Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!
What's a Snow Flake?
There are times when I want to make a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature and since it’s just a little piece of Snowmoon Software, that “Snow Flake” would be a good name. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! (0)
