I’m not sure development teams do the testing they are suppose to do, or follow the advice of what proponents of testing say you should do. As a matter of fact I know that most teams do not practice any form of formal testing, or rather make testing a key component of their development. Test [...]
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C# uses a lot of streams, or at least it seems so in some of the code examples I have looked at. Having said that I felt the need to read up on the Stream class. The stream class is an abstract class and an abstract acts as a type of base class from which [...]
Yesterday I posted about Making static content more dynamic. I actually started developing a small C# windows forms application in combination with a MS Access database. The windows forms application will, for now, generate all the HTML needed for the website and the MS Access database will be used to centralise information. This is not [...]
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I was helping some with their website yesterday and the hosting package they have does not allow for dynamic languages, such as PHP or Python, and there is no database either. So basically you have a situation where you can only upload static HTML pages, which is limiting yes, but not such an entirely bad [...]
On Monday I started working through some LINQ to XML and it got me so excited that I misunderstood some project requirements that ended up being quite wrong. It did not, however, diminish my enthusiasm. I ended up using a small part of the code in the end anyway, even though it was not in [...]
After my blog post yesterday on File.ReadAllLines() vs StreamReader I have been thinking that more code does not necessarily mean more, or does it? I mean syntactically the first one is a one liner and the second one is a few lines, but I do feel that the latter adds more value. Why? Well firstly [...]
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In my current work environment it seems as if I spend way more time pushing out code than spending time making sure the quality of the code is good. Quality in this context means that you actually spend some time before you code planning the structure of the program you are about to create. In [...]
A couple of days ago I forced myself to memorize the C# code for reading from a file (text, html), and for it I used the StreamReader class (on MSDN): try { using(StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(‘filename’)) { string s; while((s = reader.ReadLine()) != null) { Console.WriteLine(s); } } } catch(Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } [...]
When I started my career about 5 or so years ago I didnt know much about JavaScript, but I knew something about object oriented analysis and design. OOAD in this case was the classical approach to OO where an object is an instance, which means that each thing or object that you create in a [...]
One of the things that I see a lot on websites of other developers is a resume or CV section. It seems only logical that a developer would want to show off their pedigree, but I’m guessing a lot of developers would not mind some extra work (and extra cash). Creating a resume for your [...]
