Today I decided to blow away my tfs repo on my machine and do a fresh pull. To do this I opened of up VS 2012 RC and did a get latest. Of course it did not actually give me latest because as far as the server knew I had it, even though a simple check on disk would have told the system I DID NOT. When...
<Warning_Rant_AHead> Today I was reviewing some commits by our team and I ran into one commit in general that first made me vomit a bit in my mouth, then get pissed as all hell that we committed code like this. The code that was committed was a minor change to one of our ‘legacy’ (aka...
The blogosphere has gone a bit crazy the last few days with posts responding to Joel Spolsky’s latest article about "The Duct Tape Programmer" . Bloggers everywhere are tossing their two cents in and saying what parts of Joel's post was good and what wasn't good. Once noticeable trend...
After a really good evening at CRineta , I hop online to post a final tweet of the night only to see that my account has been suspended: Very strange indeed. I've looked over the terms of service and to be honest I can't see where I've faltered at all. *Sigh* If I'm silent on Twitter...
This is just a quick little rant on my part. In my opinion a property should be used for simply getting/setting of a value. You should NOT have any logic inside your getter/setter (ok, I will add a 'caviot' to this rule and say that I am ok with doing string formatting on the getter). If you...