All software that is being developed WILL have bugs, sorry, but this IS a fact. Now I know some people and companies don't like to call them glitches in software bugs. They would rather call them issues or defects. For all I care we can call them 'WizBangs', just call them something and LOG...
Today I finally broke down and bought a new PC, of course it came with MS Vista. One of the first things I do anytime I get a new PC is setup my different partitions. Normally I have to install something like partition magic in order to do this. However, finally, with Vista M.S. has built in a disk partitioning...
Lately I have been playing around with Microsoft Expression Blend. Expression Blend is a product that allows for the creation of XAML based Windows client (not its only use, but what I am using it for). You can find more information about it here at its product page. I started using Expression Blend...
Ok, this is an official rant about the .Net Framework 2.0 70-536 Self-Paced Training Kit. I understand that writing a book is difficult, I understand that creating 302 practice test is also difficult. Buy my god, people are using these materials as study aids to pass a cert. Editors, proof read the DAMN...
Over the years I have come to the conclusion when working with switch statements that switches on enum values, a DEFAULT block MUST be required. Not only should it be required, I think it should throw a developer exception. *** NOTE *** My stance on this is ONLY in scenarios where the switch statement...
I came across a posting today where the question was raised ‘Is Microsoft Pushing too much, too quick?’ . Original posting can be found here My answer to this is NO. Are they making advances in the technology, YES. Are they doing so simply because they can, NO. Microsoft is making the changes to the...