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
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
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
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
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”
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, […]