Filed Under: Business, Technology with 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Monorail rocks, but getting going in #Develop can be cumbersome in that you need to create a lot of placeholders. Fortunately, you can create a template which you can drop into your data/templates/project/CSharp sub-path of your #develop installation
for example: C:\Program Files\SharpDevelop\2.2\data\templates\project\CSharp
Using this template, you can now
Create a “MonoRails” web project
Have it create all the skeletal [...]
Filed Under: Rants, Technology with 1 Comment
What’s up with everything being ported to .NET? There’s nothing more boring than copying somebody else’s idea, unless of course, your own ideas are pretty crap
And (sup)porting a dozen applications to be used with the .NET framework surely cannot be considered as innovative either- it’s real name is “market strategy”. I must confess [...]
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Exception handling is important enough to get right. And there’s plenty of sample code out there to help you get it right, nonetheless, i come across two major variations:
catch (Exception ex) {
throw;
}
and
catch (Exception ex) {
throw ex;
}
There’s more about catching general Exception but that’s beyond the scope of this post. So, moving right along…
There is one [...]
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, but this was super unpleasant to uncover.
I’ve got a website up ‘n running and wanted to add a webservice to it, aight? Wizards make the job easy so here i go:
“Add > New item > Asp.Net > Web Service > Ok” Programming has never been so easy…
Navigate to webservice and … *poof!*
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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 [...]
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for a .net “junkie”, migrating technology skills can be quite daunting- well, that is for me at least. after too long a delay, i finally decided to start shifting some of my stuff across to Linux. i like the community drive behind Ubuntu and so… here i am. I guess there are lots of reasons [...]
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This was a commercial online system- tried to make a reservation and…
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This last year, we have uncovered numerous websites with some severe flaws. And sometimes there are fairly _large_ websites where you’d think they’d have more professional skill available to avoid the kind of things we end up seeing…
And i don’t think ca$h (lack of) is the issue- in fact, i supect that sometimes there is more [...]
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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 [...]