Warning: this is not a programmer post. I had a little bit of text that I wanted to spell check. I am a particularly bad speller, bad enough that FireFox’s built in spell check is rarely helpful enough, as is Google. My tool of spell checking choice is Microsoft Word. So I put the paragraph […]
Read MoreIn case any of you read my initial post comparing various IoC libraries, I had some less than flattering words about Castle Windsor in my mass review of IoC libraries. Naturally the Windsor crowd thought I was nuts. So I went back and took another look at Windsor to see if I had missed something […]
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to to forum today…wait, wrong talk. Here something I’ve been dealing a lot with lately, the ASP.Net Checkbox control and JQuery. Also, the HTML checkbox and JQuery. OK, Checkboxes and JQuery. Problem is you don’t always get what you think you are going to get, and there are […]
Read MoreI’ve been watching and participating with the Alt.Net, Design Patterns, and Best Practices groups for a while now. Sometime on the sidelines, sometime in the thick of things. I watch as people go about confronting and teaching each other, sometimes with the greatest of respect — other times, not so much. One thing is apparent […]
Read MoreA new president was installed today in time of peril for everyone on our planet. I wish President Obama all the best. May he lead with wisdom, integrity, and honesty. It is important to realize once in a while, there are more important things than programming.
Read MoreSince we are talking about ethics in software right now, I’d thought I’d throw one or two out there. First and foremost: please let me know if you think I’m wrong. My only request is this: tell me why — in as much detail as you can muster. Truth is, I want to be proven […]
Read MoreSwitch, select, case, really long if statement…whatever the cause, when they get too long they all become unmanageable. Overly long switch statements do exists, I’ve written them, we have all seen them in other peoples code. In fact, I remember hearing, from a fellow Elegant Coder, that a coworker of his hit the limit for […]
Read MoreI had just posted this to a question on StackOverflow about the differences between various IoC libraries. By the time I was done I realized I had a blog post. I am prepping a presentation for a usergroup…as such I just when thru a bunch of them. Namely: AutoFac, MEF, Ninject, Spring.Net, StructureMap, Unity, and […]
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