2005

Explore posts from 2005 below.

Jim Gray on Channel 9

An absolutely fascinating interview with Jim Gray is over at Channel 9. He labels his views as "the lunatic fringe". Huh!? It all made wonderful sense to me....

video software-architecture web-services industry-trends
March 22, 2005
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Field Name Colors

Eric Gunnerson wrote a post on field name conventions where the conclusion was that having an m_ prefix in front of field names makes it easier to identify fields versus variables....

visual-studio code-quality programming
March 10, 2005
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DisposableResource

This post contains some very minor variations of the Dispose pattern implemented in a class that implements IDisposable. A typical example of how to implement the Dispose idiom can be found over...

csharp memory-management design-patterns programming
March 8, 2005
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Media Center Update

Our big screen TV karked it a month back, so I haven't done much with the media center experiment up until recently. We had an extended warrantee on the TV so ended up getting a totally new unit....

media hardware windows
March 8, 2005
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Class Designer C++ Support Cut

Bummer. Given the complexity of C++ reverse engineering compared to the simpler/cleaner languages such as C#, VB.NET and J# this is understandable....

visual-studio cpp class-design microsoft
March 4, 2005
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Blog Marketing

Today I did my usual reading through the blogs I've subscribed to within Newsgator on the web. Two posts (by Jeremy Allaire and Eric Mack) referred to commercial ventures that were new and...

blogging rss business-analysis
February 28, 2005
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Indigo

Mitch Denny asks whether anyone would like to see some Indigo content at Code Camp Oz. I reckon this would be great and am particularly interested in: SOA hype versus reality opinions Is Indigo/SOA...

indigo soa dotnet software-architecture communications scada
February 13, 2005
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MPAA

Got this link via neowin.net. To me it smacks of arrogance and heavy-handedness. I can just imagine the people who are really into content/video piracy getting a feeling of justification that they...

licensing industry-trends disruption
February 13, 2005
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.NET Array Expectations

While creating a mini C# code generator, I discovered that .NET Arrays don't behave the way I expected with respect to the Equals and GetHashCode implementations....

dotnet csharp programming
January 31, 2005
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Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects

Here are a few excerpts from "Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects" at IT Conversations: Clip 1: Agile Return On Investment[]( Clip 2: Production Line Analogy[]( Clip 3: Empirical...

agile project-management estimation podcasts
January 24, 2005
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