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 | Close But No Cigar |
· Krehbiel Tech · Saturday, Mar 22, 2008, 6:20 PM · 69 words · 
I just got a 71% on a Microsoft 70-536 practice test (80% is required to pass). I got creamed in Globalization and Security topics (things I've never had an occasion to use before). I guess I should probably read over the material before I take the tests for real. (I figured since I've been a .NET programmer for several years now I should get some certifications to that effect.)
| Company Smell |
· Krehbiel Tech · Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008, 9:42 PM · 61 words ·
I found this recent post on ASP.NET Weblogs sort of funny: Please question the need for whitespace. This person is actually suggesting that blank lines in your source code (which, for most normal people, are used to improve readability) could be a "code smell." Then at the bottom of the post we learn that they are hiring. Hrm. Coincidence? Or company smell?
| Open Source Licenses |
· Krehbiel Tech · Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008, 10:02 PM · 454 words ·
I've been thinking about releasing some open source stuff, so I've been reading up on Open Source licenses. They all seem to have a significant hole in them: It looks to me like a nefarious person could slap any GPL software onto a CD and sell it to the nearest gullible corporation for $5000. Granted, anyone could get the software from non-nefarious sources for free, but still, the nefarious person would probably be able to con a few people into handing over money for the free software, which is bad, but it's even worse that the actual author -- the person who did all the work, in other words -- gets absolutely nothing out of the transaction. That doesn't seem quite right to me. If someone is willing to pay $5 or $500 or $5000 for a product, I think the creator of the product deserves some portion of that.
| The Magic Two-Faced File |
· Krehbiel Tech · Sunday, Mar 9, 2008, 6:12 PM · 50 words ·
I was in a store recently where the clerk vehemently declared that we should stick with XP and not install Vista until there was absolutely no choice.
| NAnt MissingManifestResourceException Tip |
· Krehbiel Tech · Sunday, Mar 9, 2008, 11:57 AM · 183 words ·
With NAnt 0.86 Beta 1, I found that I couldn't use the <resources> element to include *.resx files in my <csc> task. For example, this didn't work.
| Design By Contract and Spec# |
· Krehbiel Tech · Thursday, Mar 6, 2008, 9:17 PM · 239 words ·
I've ragged a bit on The Pragmatic Programmer lately, but I wanted to mention one concept in the book that I really liked: Design By Contract.
| Text Manipulation Languages |
· Krehbiel Tech · Thursday, Mar 6, 2008, 9:07 PM · 204 words ·
I said before that The Pragmatic Programmer seems biased toward Unix environments and lacks much real-world experience with Microsoft environments. Here's another example of that.