IE 8: Where did that tab go?
I am now using Internet Explorer 8 at work (corporate policy), and I noticed that sometimes I cannot find the tabs I open with “open link in new tab”. Firefox […]
Ruby
I’ve got a Ruby book “The Ruby Programming Language” by Flanagan and Matsumoto (or should I say the Ruby book?) as a New Year present. I am only starting the […]
Scripting .NET Apps
What are the options? This is what I found so far: * Dynamically compile C# or VB.NET code into an assembly and execute it – I used this route before […]
Poltergeist? No, Vista Data Redirection
As I was working with a Vista machine, I started noticing that occasionally when I make a changes to some files, only certain programs can see them, but others can’t. […]
Reading Larman: Iterative Process and "True Path"
Larman says (p. 22) that as the system goes through more iterations it converges “towards final requirements and design” and draws a wavy graph with the size of the waves […]
Reading Larman: to UP or not to UP
I bought Larman’s “Applying UML and Patterns” about a month ago, but had hard time getting to actually read it. This is my first note for a long time – […]
Minimizing Your Virtual PC Hard Drive
Just installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 in a virtual PC (Microsoft Virtual PC 2007). It is kinda slow, but it works. In the process I created two “baseline” […]
Notwithstanding The Above…
I was downloading C# 4.0 feature list, and Microsoft presented me with a several page license document. Somehow, when I see words “nonwithstanding the above” in a text, I don’t […]
Public Classes, Protected Methods and Limitations of C# Visibility Control
I had an interesting problem today. I had a public class in my assembly called Session. It was a public class, but it used a lot of internal stuff in […]
Parsing .NET Enums: some unit tests
Of course, I had to verify that enum parsing really works as they say it does (see previous post). So I wrote a little unit test. All tests in this […]