Investing in the Learning Curve

June 2nd, 2008

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We have a concept of what the learning curve represents, and unfortunately, the same thing can represent 2 opposite concepts. What makes more sense to me is looking at a learning curve from a classical labour cost perspective and more keenly towards labour productivity. In this sense, the learning curve is interpreted, broadly, as: the [...]

log4net

May 16th, 2007

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Not gonna lie- it wasn’t altogether _that_ intuitive to begin with. Appenders, logging levels, loggers and a whole bunch of different configuration going on: it wasn’t just working. But, i thought to myself: many others are happy with it so it must be worth the initial pain. Of course, in a world of instant gratification [...]

Gem

December 6th, 2006

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now where was this little gem when i needed it? a series of articles entitled:
An Extensive Examination of Data Structures Using C# 2.0
there are 6 parts to this series, this link above will take you to “Part 5: From Trees to Graphs” [the part i'm interested in at the time of discovery :)]

Delegate Gotcha

November 7th, 2006

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A while back i was trying to find a solution to the delegate gotcha and stumbled upon, even more recently, some answers to a lot of my questions… they trackback and link with each other at some point, but my entry point to this discussion was mostly through, in no specific order:
Observable property pattern, memory leaks [...]

FtpWebRequest Part II

September 12th, 2006

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.. following on from the first one, the project has now been updated to include some work with the new BackgroundWorker component available in Net 2.0…
Creating responsive UI’s on lengthy processes has never been so easy!
including source code

FtpWebRequest

September 10th, 2006

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After looking for a trim Ftp client library for .Net 1.1, .Net 2.0 releases with FtpWebRequest. I completely missed this one in the search to find *something*.
After hacking around with it for a very short while, it proved to be by far the easist “library” to integrate with… the fruits of that freely available here [...]