I am going to be switching services for RSS and content update notifications. Up until now, I’ve been using feedburner, which is a free service that has been around since I believe 2004 or so and was bought out by google in 2007. Since that acquisition, its best feature is that it is free. This…
There’s a blogger named Iris Classon that writes a series of posts called “stupid questions”, where she essentially posts a discussion-fueling question once per day. Recently, I noticed one there called “Should I Use Regions in my Code?”, and the discussion that ensued seemed to be one of whether regions were helpful in organizing code…
Many moons ago, I blogged about creating a DX Core plugin and admitted that one of my main motivations for doing this was to automate conversion of my code to conform to a standard that I didn’t particularly care for. One of the conversions I introduced, as explained in that post, is that I like…
Don’t try to follow the waterfall model. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no waterfall. Waterfall In Practice Today I often see people discuss, argue and debate the best approach or type of approach to software development. Most commonly, this involves a discussion of the merits of iterative and/or agile…
Last week, I had some specs to create a grid view in ASP that had normal column headers, as one might expect, and then also “super” column headers, where the columns were categorized. So, if, for instance, you had columns for “Dog”, “Cat”, and “Bird”, those three headers might have a “super-header” called “Pet”, in…
