Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (next part)
Rocky Lhotka gave a nice and quite deep speech on how we, regular software developers, can prepare ourselves to the brave new world of Metro and Windows 8. The trouble […]
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Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (continued)
Metro UX Design Guidelines. This class gave somewhat less technical perspective on all things Metro. According to the new religion, full screen is actually good for you. Show content, not […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2
Keynote was given today by two people: a senior manager from Microsoft and a CEO of a partner company. It’s funny that they refer to the whole event as “show”, […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1 (continued)
WinRT Internals. WinRT runtime is a completely new set of classes available out of the box and usable in all 3 supported Metro environments, namely CLR (with C#/VB), WinJS (with […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1
Attended a bunch of session about WPF and WinRT/Metro. A couple of points: Windows. The schizophrenic operating system with two start screens is here to stay. They openly admit it, […]
C# Namespaces and Backward Compatibility – Part 1
Namespaces are a great way to organize code. However, I recently found out that even putting your classes in a carefully organized namespace hierarchy will not shield you from name […]
Midnight Thoughts about MVVM
What keeps bothering me about MVVM, is that user-defined views behave very differently from built-in controls. We use built-in controls like this: <ListBox ItemsSource=… SelectedItem=… /> If, however, ListBox were […]
How to design systems so you can waste your time debugging
A couple of days ago I spent several hours thanks to these two little design quirks. Quirk #1. Deadlock prone protocol design. Our program uses two client-server protocols. Let’s call […]
Why I don’t like SQL
Had a discussion with some friends where I said I don’t like SQL and consider it an atavism. They disagreed and said that SQL is a very insightful language and […]
TFS and the KISS principle
How do you copy an SVN label to a folder? svn serverpath/tags/label destdir How do you copy a TFS label to a folder? Watch my hands: mkdir destdir cd destdir […]