Sometimes, you don’t know what you are going to do with something until you actually live with it. That’s where I am with my – if I ever get it – PDA. It could turn out to be an indispensable tool (or is that toy?) that I love. Or, it may turn out that the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, 2006
October 29, 2007 – 11:07 pm
Lots of interesting food for thought in this book. It describes guidelines for structuring your code. Should this be a structure or a class. A method or a property? A namespace? Multiple classes? How should I format the code? Well structured and presented as a discussion of the pros and cons, rather than straight rules. […]
Visual Basic for Network Applications by Simon Collin, 1998
October 27, 2007 – 10:18 am
Sometimes I order used books off of Amazon. By the time they arrive at the house, sometimes a couple weeks later, I think to myself, “Why on earth did I order this book?” In this case, the book cost $7.56 with shipping. Because we have an aging VB6 application at work, I thought this book […]
Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, Matt Hargett
October 14, 2007 – 4:58 pm
I started using NUnit a few months ago. The concept seems simple and the documentation from the website is plenty readable, so I found it easy to begin working with it. But in the absence of seeing or talking to another person who uses NUnit (or JUnit or the equivalent), I wondered to myself, have I grasped the […]
Monitoring the UPS status from VB6
October 12, 2007 – 9:26 am
The mission: Our software needs to monitor the state of the UPS unit for our equipment. If a power failure occurs and the UPS switches to battery power, the software needs to finish the devices being processed on the equipment and come to a graceful halt. The options: I wanted to have a signal from the […]
Gerald Weinberg “Becoming a Technical Leader”
October 2, 2007 – 8:22 am
I read Becoming a Technical Leader because of a recommendation on the Coding Horror blog. What did I get out of it? Mr. Weinberg has a lovely, charismatic dog (German Sheperd?) pictured with him on the back cover. I decided he is believable based on his dog alone. This is not a book about management – at least, […]
