Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
I was talking to one of my Developers this afternoon about coding styles. This is one of the things we discussed. It's something you see a lot, CamelCased properties with associated pascalCased data members.
public
class MyClass
{
private string myName;
This is all well and good but it can lead to some insidious ...
Tags: C#, Coding
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Back from "Fat Camp" Waddington. Climb on a diet of two granola bars, three PowerBars and half a freeze dried meal each day and you will loose weight, no question.
Call me a sad muppet but I spent our one bad weather day reading the second edition of "Extreme Programming Explained" ...
Tags: agile, Travel
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
So I sent my code comments post to the developers in the VSTO PU... for their entertainment and edification.
This got several people, including Eric onto other obvious code smells including; multiple if... else, switches and methods that take booleans. All of which boil down to methods that do more than one ...
Tags: Coding
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
I was writing some comments in my code the other day. Yes, I know first mistake – letting a manager write code. But you have to get past that.
I was actually writing a comment. It said something like…
/// <summary>
/// This class rolls over old log files into a folder and writes ...
Tags: Coding
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
As some of you may know I’ve been at Agile 2006 for the last week. So while I was flying back I thought I’d write it up and pass on some stuff I learnt. These are an edited version of the notes I sent out to the VSTO Team.
Some general ...
Tags: agile, Events, Minneapolis
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