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NewsThe future of the office is ... inflatable walls, apparently Pin
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NewsThe right way to adopt new technology Pin
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jeron1 wrote:
I'm not sure if I'd have the gumption to tackle something like that
In hindsight is wasn't gumption so much as foolish pride. Early in the project I decided this was A Good Idea, despite other folks being skeptical. I had to prove them wrong, you see. It was also written in C++ using MFC, which meant COM was a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult than in the nascent VB or C# world.

I learned my lesson, however. A new product started in 2008 has a similar plug-in approach. This one was implemented in C#/.NET using a tiny bit of reflection during startup to enumerate plug-ins. Vastly simpler and far fewer problems outside the application.

One of the benefits of becoming A Wise Old Head is learning when to cut your losses, admit your mistakes, and try something else.
Software Zen: delete this;

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NewsMicrosoft’s Brad Smith renews attack on Google over web content Pin
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NewsRust programming language: We want to take it into the mainstream, says Facebook Pin
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NewsWhy programmers don’t write documentation Pin
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