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David Cunningham wrote:
Our data visualization products (Chart, Diagram, etc.) are more often considered 'strategic' purchases and so it's more important for us to reach executives in software companies, product managers, etc. and while there are lots of those people visiting CodeProject, there aren't enough that we could advertise exclusively through CP.
Good point.
David Cunningham wrote:
When we were primarily selling MFC/C++ tools,
Speaking of the MFC tools. Will we be seeing a C# port anytime soon, especially Ultimate Grid?
Michael
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Which of those do you actually use and how and why?
Snippet Compiler I do use. FXCop too. The rest, not at all.
I tried Regulator but found it overcomplex. Useful for an incredibly complex regex but otherwise overkill. Incredibly complex regex I get from Google.
NUnit, never tried it. Will give it a bash though.
NDoc, one day. My code is XML commented but haven't had a need to format it with NDoc yet.
NAnt, not needed. Builds in ASP.NET I assume are vastly simpler than Windows Apps.
CodeSmith, I tried, I really did. Just never managed to get into the habit.
ASP.NET Version Switcher and the Visual Studio .NET Project Converter, nope, not needed except in very rare cases.
.NET Reflector, tried it for fun. Sounds useful but haven't really actually done anything practical with it.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
"I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Snippet Compiler I do use. FXCop too.
I use both these for the obvious reasons.
Paul Watson wrote:
I tried Regulator but found it overcomplex. Useful for an incredibly complex regex but otherwise overkill. Incredibly complex regex I get from Google.
Don't use Regulator. I don't do a lot of regex and if I do, I do a google for it. Lifes to short to be messing around with that kind of stuff.
Paul Watson wrote:
NUnit, never tried it. Will give it a bash though.
Very useful tool. Especially seeing as I have to do my own QA.
Paul Watson wrote:
NDoc, one day. My code is XML commented but haven't had a need to format it with NDoc yet.
I rarely use it, but it is useful for documenting my class libraries - just incase I ever get around to making them public.
Paul Watson wrote:
CodeSmith, I tried, I really did. Just never managed to get into the habit.
I need to use it more. I want to see if I can use it for generating MyXaml code. Just haven't had time to look at it yet.
Paul Watson wrote:
.NET Reflector, tried it for fun. Sounds useful but haven't really actually done anything practical with it.
Great tool for looking at the Microsoft assemblies and finding out how stuff actually works. Whilst I love blackbox programming, it is nice sometimes to know what is going on behind the scenes.
Michael
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>Very useful tool [NUnit]. Especially seeing as I have to do my own QA.
Do you have any good tutorials or example usages for this? Specifically for ASP.NET apps. I want to get better testing into our production line and NUnit seems good but so far I have seen lots of simple exampls on just blocks of code really (or is that the point of unit testing?)
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
"I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul Watson wrote:
want to get better testing into our production line and NUnit seems good but so far I have seen lots of simple exampls on just blocks of code really (or is that the point of unit testing?)
Yeah, thats pretty much the point of unit testing. Testing individual methods. It's more about code testing that application testing. Unit testing is what developers should do before it gets to the QA team.
Paul Watson wrote:
Do you have any good tutorials or example usages for this? Specifically for ASP.NET apps.
This[^] has been pointed out to me in the past. I don't do a lot of ASP.NET so I'm probably not the best person to ask. Maybe a post in the ASP.NET forum might provide more details.
AspToday[^] did have an okay article but it seems to have disappered behind the subscription wall
This one[^] is a good primer, even though it is aimed at the VB.NET developer.
David Hayden has a few good links on his blog[^]
And finally,
everything you ever wanted to know about test driven development but were afraid to ask[^]
Hope this of some help
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Wow, thanks Michael, much appreciated. I will give it all a good read and hopefully produce better solutions from it
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
"I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Wow, thanks Michael, much appreciated.
No problem. There is very little point me keeping all these links in my favourites or in my RSS reader, if I can't share them.
One day I'll get around to putting them onto my personal website, if I ever get organised.
Michael
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If you want I can set you up as an author/contributor of quickies. It's really just my link dump but I would be very happy to have someone like you dumping into it too.
TypePad lets me setup multiple authors for a blog (and it tags each post as "posted by XYZ"). It is then simple enough to post to it with your browser.
Totally understand if you would rather do your own, and better, thing
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
"I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Hmm, seems they pulled it from the MS download site but you can still get it from Lookout's site.
Thanks for the heads up. I guess MS has reacted to various outspoken individuals (including Joel) who slated them for what they did when they bought Lookout.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Joel On Software[^]
I know a lot of people like Joel's articles and I know a lot of people think he talks out of his arse. I like a lot of the stuff he writes, especially Painless Functional Specifications[^], The Joel Test[^] and Painless Software Schedules[^]. All three of which have influnced my own internal software development process.
I'll certainly be buying a copy of the book as it will make for a great resource and it will be something to give to each employee I hire, so they can get a better understanding on the ways I like to do business.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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>a lot of people like Joel's articles and I know a lot of people think he talks out of his arse
Both. He has good stuff to say, I just don't enjoy how he says it.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Whilst MyXaml makes development so much easier and streamlined, it can be a bitch to debug object creation and trying to find out why properties aren't being set.
Marc has posted a great tip on adding breakpoints via mark-up. Have a read at Markup Breakpoints[^]
I'm sure this will give my development productivity a boost.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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I'm working at a client's site this week.
Whilst they aren't the most technically literate people, they sure have a locked down internet connection.
No MSN Messenger
No CVS
I'll do a Shields Up[^] test tomorrow and see if they are blocking any of the dangerous ports too.
Still it is refreshing to see a small company taking their internet security seriously.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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RealDevs.net[^]
Always nice to see a new swing on the developer website playground.
Whilst I'm not overly keen on DotNetPuke forums, both Marc and Anders have a good pedigree as developers so it will be interesting to watch the site grow and mature.
Good luck with the site, at least I've got somewhere else to hang out whilst waiting for my code to compile.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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I'm a big Lucas fan, however THX 1138 is one movie I never managed to get my head around. I only saw it once on late night television which might have contributed to the head f*** feeling. So I think I'll get myself a copy of the new directors cut DVD release[^]. The American Zoetrope documentary sounds interesting too.
Carrying on the Lucas theme, a new series of Clone Wars[^] cartoons is scheduled for next year. The first two series were very well done, even if some of the Jedi did seem a little too powerful for my tastes. Still, they did fit well within the Star Wars universe, certainly better than the 80's cartoons Ewoks and Droids.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Star Wars Action Figure Archive[^]
Wow. What a collection! I can't believe they still make so many Star Wars toys. I do hope children are still buying them to play with and that the figures aren't being snapped up by collectors who just leave them in their packaging and look at them.
I still have most of my original toys, that were bought for me between 1978 and 1984. Not many of them are in good condition. A few were chewed by my dog, and a couple of Stormtroopers got a little damaged when they visited Hoth on a very snowy day in my back garden.
I wonder if these new toys stand up a little better than the old ones used to. We used to have stick blue-tac on their feet to stop them toppling over.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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I'm playing around with a new RSS Feed Reader called Sauce Reader[^]
So far it's looking pretty good. I've had a few crashes, but I think I'll probably using it from now on rather than SharpReader. It's certainly the best I've used so far, plus it's free for personal use.
Michael
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Thanks for the link. I've just downloaded it and it looks good, if a little slow. (Well, my whole machine is running slow, so anything that takes slightly longer than normal is painful)
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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A new blog that seems like it may be worth reading, Visual Studio 2005 Team System[^]
I think the most interesting part of the first entry is
Now, with Visual Studio Team System, we are seriously asking, “With automation, how can we re-engineer our core IT processes? How can we remove the overhead from following good process? How can we make all these different roles individually more productive while integrating them as a high-performance team?”
This is something I've been pondering myself for a while. It's good to see somebody inside Microsoft is asking the same questions.
In this age of outsourcing development to the allegedly cheaper overseas options, I need to be able to write and build software in a more efficient manner. Any tool that can automate my development processes can only help me in my goal.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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