Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Top 5 Secrets of .Net Desktop Deployment Wizards
Deployment is one of the software project taxes that are often neglected or shunted aside to have another team deal with.
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Dealing with the Configuration Nightmare
Typically during an overview of some new technology they will say "and it's totally configurable" at which point my inner sarcastic voice pipes up in response "great, now we have two problems".
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Alternate Database Options
Every once in awhile you wake up and take notice of a trend that's been bubbling on in the background for some time. For me, today, that trend is the mainstreaming of nontraditional databases.
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More than one way to do it, Part I - Powershell
So my
coworker, err boss :) seems to have started playing with Powershell, which is great. It looks like his first foray into PowerShell development is a commandlet for tibco ems topics. My initial feeling on this is that the benefits of commandlets syntax checking are not worth the tax of compiling and installing it. I would've used a native PowerShell approach. On the other hand, a full navigation provider... -
A guide to surviving RSI
It's no secret among my friends and family that I have RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) due to computer use. I haven't blogged about it because, well, it's personal, and because I didn't want to jeopardize any chance of future employment. But I periodically get asked for advice on how to deal with RSI pain and for whatever reason I'm feeling more confident about sharing this.
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Pointers to good concurrent programming information
A coworker asked me if I knew of any good books on .Net multithreaded programming.
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Fuzzy task list in WPF
The software product, Sciral Consistency implements a "fuzzy task list". These are for the tasks that don't have fixed times, such as:
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Number of .Net Assemblies
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How to use static analysis and code metrics to win business and influence others
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Driving Powershell adoption at the workplace
A number of months ago, based only on some of the publicly available presentations, blog posts, and some brief experimentation at home, I decided to adopt Powershell, both for myself, and my development team. Initially, I just hope it would be accepted as a better cmd for development. But now we have it running our daily and hourly batch jobs on production servers.