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 […]
Parsing .NET Enums
I needed the following functionality: – class MarketSession has property MarketType (options, futures, …) – this property is an enum, but in the underlying protocol it is actually a number […]
Where to put log files in Windows?
Following up on the previous post. Linux (and UNIX in general) has a centralized location for logs: that’s /var/log. Windows does not. The original idea was that you are supposed […]
Setting Folder Security in MSI
I had a surprisingly difficult time trying to figure out how to set folder permissions in my windows service installer. Here’s the story: I have a Windows service that writes […]
Data flow diagrams
Just explained my project to a new team member and realized UML does not have standard way of expressing data flow diagrams. Indeed, it is an object-oriented toolset, and data […]
WPF 3D Demo is Here
I have finally published it. WPF 3D demo demonstrates features such as 3D bodies (duh!), control templates, data binding, etc.