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I encountered this post on my weekend reading. 91 Surefire Ways to Become an Event Greater Developer contain a comprehensive guide linking to all sort of blog posts providing insights on improving your skills as a developer. While the list is very long...
Consider the following (imaginary) conversation: Programmer: What if a user will want the ability to sort the values in the report grid by columns? Manager: We don't need a dynamic grid for version one. Programmer: But someone might want to sort the...
I was on a phone interview the other day where I was asked for my definition of “Good Code”. The first thought that came to mind was maintainability - if it can't be understood, maintained and extended by other developers than its definitely not good...
I was on a phone interview the other day where I was asked for my definition of “Good Code”.
The first thought that came to mind was maintainability - if it can’t be understood, maintained and extended by other developers than its definitely not...
I was on a phone interview the other day where I was asked for my definition of “Good Code”.
The first thought that came to mind was maintainability - if it can’t be understood, maintained and extended by other developers than its definitely not...
On the previous post in this series we looked into the DataModel component in our architecture in detail and defined an abstract DataModel base class to derive our models from. On this post we'll implement a concrete data model to represent a stock's...
WPF, Microsoft's not-so-new-anymore UI technology offers new capabilities allowing both developers and designers to work together to achieve a stunning experience for their applications. Power, however, does not come without complexity, and WPF does...
I wanted to build a screen saver and came across Karen's template which is made for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 3.0. Since I'm on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.0 I took Karen's template and made some modifications to support it. So, if you...
Now that's pretty cool... A .NET port of the Quake 3 Arena source code . If you liked this entry, feel free to visit www.developerzen.com to read more similar articles. Readers of my blog are invited to join me on Twitter and Facebook
I have a short introduction to Powershell presentation at SAP today and to make things interesting I made the presentation slides using a Powershell script rather than using Powerpoint (I actually stole and modified this ). So, here are my presentation's...
Silverlight is pretty cool for doing interactive web apps. I think they concentrated on Video too much on version one and I would have wanted the features in Silverlight 2.0 (WPF controls etc.) in 1.0 and video added later on. Comm'on, how many of...
A new site dedicated to the launch events of Windows 2008 , Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 has been unveiled at http://www.heroeshappenhere.com/ Currently it contains some videos of Microsoft professional sharing their feelings about the launch...
Check out the following code snippet: static decimal Division( int a, int b) { return a / b; } © 2007 Eran Kampf. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.
There have been a bunch of "What I'm doing to become a better developer" posts on the blogsphere lately. Looking at all these posts it seems that a great developer is measured almost solely based on his knowledge of new technologies and methodologies...
The Singleton implementation in the snippet I gave works fine as a lazy, thread-safe Singleton as it ensures only one thread can create the instance. However, there's a big performance hit caused by the fact that we acquire a lock each time the Singleton...
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