This is another one of those posts that’s more for my reference, but if anyone else finds it useful, so much the better… So, a few years ago, I bought some Belkin wireless USB dongles (F5D7050 is the chipset, I believe). I’ve gotten these working with a few different Linux distros, but the one I…
The Problem If you find yourself immersed in a code base that is sometimes or often fast and loose with APIs and internal contracts between components, you might get into the habit of writing a lot of defensive code. This applies to pretty much any programming language, but I’ll give examples here in C#, since…
Back Story Recently, I set up a media wiki installation. The surrounding requirements were such that I was forced to use a Windows 2003 server instead of Linux, which would have been my preference, but hey, when life gives you lemons, turn the lemon into a WAMP stack. And that’s just what I did. The…
Context I’m a member of the LinkedIn group “Software Craftsmanship.” I’m not an active member, but I do like perusing the discussion topics. Recently, I read through this discussion on whether software is more of an “art” or a “craft.” This set me to musing a bit, so I thought I would post about it…
I’ve recently started to play around with Microsoft Pex, and I’m discovering (1) that there is a non-trivial learning curve; and (2) that it seems like a pretty powerful tool. As best I can tell at this early stage (and admittedly, I’m certainly a neophyte), there seem to be two major components. The first is…
