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DiffDebugging
Martin Fowler is one of my favourite technical authors. Recently he wrote a bliki entry titled DiffDebugging. I got the same sense of deja vu with this piece as a I did when first reading the Design...
June 26, 2004
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Whidbey Class Designer
The May preview of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) included some of the Whitehorse initiative functionality. As I'm particularly keen on UML diagrams as a means of communicating technical concepts...
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June 23, 2004
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The API War and Microsoft
Thought I may as well weigh in on Joel Spolsky's post on How Microsoft Lost the API War. It's a great read but I think that Joel is way off on his thoughts on .NET....
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June 20, 2004
Read More Carpal Tunnel
Though carpal tunnel syndrome isn't directly software development related, it's worth a mention in this blog as I'm sure many software developers will experience it or some form wrist/keyboarding...
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June 14, 2004
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Disrespecting UML
I was listening to .NET Rocks Live! today and enjoying it as usual. Rocky Lhotka was talking about the Visual Studio 2005 Whitehorse designer functionality....
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June 4, 2004
Read More The Microsoft Visual C++ /clr Switch
Today I had a go at compiling a large body of existing legacy C/C++ code with the /clr switch. The bulk of it compiled without changing the existing source code....
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June 2, 2004
Read More Just started
A couple of days ago another video was posted on the Microsoft Channel 9 site with Ward Cunningham as the subject. In the video, he was answering a question on whether there is a revolution coming in...
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May 31, 2004
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