ElegantCode

29 Apr

2004

major.minor[.build[.revision]]

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Microsoft says that major.minor[.build[.revision]] is the version schema for assemblies. Shouldn’t it be: major.minor[.revision[.build]] ? Well, I just wrote an app that is underpinned by System.Version which uses major.minor[.build[.revision]] and I find MS’s logic so confounding here that I actually considered backing out their Version class for one of my own. I ranted about System.Version […]

24 Apr

2004

1994 Northland Camper For Sale

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I continue to purge my belongings and here is the next item to go. Our 1994 Northland Camper. 4 kids under 7 years old in this space during a rain storm is too much to bear. We re moving to a trailer or something. About the Camper 1994 Northland Polar Loaded, this was their top […]

24 Apr

2004

.Text Updates?

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I really have appreciated and liked as a blogging engine, but I am increasingly afraid that I am either going to have to rip into this code or look elsewhere for an engine. While I appreciate Scott’s contribution to the community, the guy is busy, and that has obviously pushed this little side project out […]

22 Apr

2004

TDD Justifies Itself

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Although I was not a quick convert to TDD, I think I was just won over. I am currently writing a custom task for nAnt and am using TDD practices while doing so, running tests and refactoring , etc. Here’s the meat. I have been playing with an algorithm for incrementing build numbers in my […]

22 Apr

2004

System.Version

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Can anyone tell me why this class is A) sealed or B) not a struct? I had to write a horribly goofy wrapper class over the top of System.Version because I couldn’t derive from it. While we are at it, why are the member properties read only? This class provides basically no functionality other than operator overladed […]

18 Apr

2004

Using Virtual Machines

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I know I am a bit late to the game on this subject, but our team has begun making extensive use of MS Virtual PC for development environments. This is a new world! I love having a baseline image and working from there for individual projects. We recently purchased some portable USB hard drives for […]

15 Apr

2004

VSS 8.0

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Poking around in Whidbey, I see that it includes an update to VSS. Thank goodness. I see some menus in the VSS client that lead me to think that there is a web server component to it (web access to VSS?) but I cannot find any detail on it anywhere. On the web or on […]

9 Apr

2004

How about a Honda Nighthawk?

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Motorcycles:

I have been thinking about what bike would be a good starter for my wife and I think I am inclining toward the tried and true Honda Nighthawk 750. Boring, I know, but it seems like a trusty machine to get your feet wet on and something I can use for commuting without muttering, “Hurry […]