I thought I’d put together a quick post today on something that annoyed me and that I found unintuitive: binding with the WPF combo box. I’m doing some development following MVVM, and a situation came up in which I had a view model for editing a conceptual object in my domain. Let’s call it a…
I posted some time back about developing for Android and getting set up with the Android SDK, the Eclipse plugin, and all that. For the last six months, I haven’t really had time to get back to that. But now I’m starting to delve into Android development in earnest, so this (and potentially other upcoming…
For those familiar with the MVVM (Model, View, View-Model) pattern in .NET development, one conundrum that you’ve probably pondered, or at least read about, is what to do about showing a dialog. For a bit of background, MVVM is centered around the concept of binding from the View (XAML markup) to the “ViewModel”, which essentially…
It seems pretty well accepted these days that unit testing is preferable to not unit testing. Logically, this implies that most people believe a tested code base is better than a non-tested code base. Further, by the nature of testing, a tested code base is likely to have fewer bugs than a non-tested code base….
I don’t write C++ all that often these days, but I suppose that I spent so many years with it that it never really feels foreign to me when I come back to it. What does oftentimes feel foreign is generating a Makefile when developing in Linux. I’ve made enough of them over the years…
