So for those who run Windows 7 natively this isn’t really an issue. For those of us who want to run on a Mac and have been frustrated with the failure of Fusion 3, go give Parallels Desktop 5 a try. I made the mistake of assuming vmware would do a good job with Fusion [...]
You’d be surprised the things that can be found during basic code reviews :) Once I found a pen I thought I’d lost … :) in all seriousness though, nothing drives me more crazy than seeing the following. try { // some code } catch (Exception e) { throw e; } I could scream! and [...]
Here is a small project I thought others might find as useful as I have. We all know how hard it is to find a decently written schema these days especially when you inherit a project. Well why carry those ugly column names into code? This generator will create nice names for your columns while [...]
Well shortly after the release of VS 2008 Microsoft have released an MVC extension for Visual Studio. It is long overdue but never the less great to get! One funny point to note and maybe it’s just because the release is only CTP but the test framework of VS 2008 cannot test a controller out-the-box [...]
Yup we sure do. For those who use Mafooku to sell their products online, every product that hits the top 10 gets automatically sent to Twitter so those who follow Mafooku there can see your stuff. Of course since each product posted gets a turn on the home page everybody is getting some good coverage. [...]
“Code Generation” tools to be more specific. Let me clarify that firstly. I’m not talking about tools that just take away programmer’s jobs – I don’t see anything that would suggest that is currently possible. I’m more interested in tools that just do what we keep repeating. If you haven’t discovered code productivity tools yet [...]
There are many tools out there for developers and I’ll probably write some more later about some ORM tools I use often and that save a ton of time. This article is about a more generic tool, something that can help you no matter what kind of code you’re writing. These are productivity tools and/or [...]
This post is part of my series on development tools. There are way to many companies out there that do not offer their developers any tools what-so-ever and it is a real shame. If you’re a lone ranger then you need to get some cash and get these tools. If you want to write high [...]
I work with a lot of .NET developers and hey even some Java ones from time to time ;) We’ve all done some dumb things and we all write bugs but the following is a recurring issue I find and I wish I knew where people were learning this. try { // do something bad [...]
I hope you’re still not using Visual Studio 2003, if you are you need to get another job :) I want to talk about the hidden powers of VS 2005. Every now and then we get a good blog posting from someone at MS with tips on how to increase performance or do this or [...]
