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Coding standards

I'm just reading Pete Goodliffe's Code Craft. I'm only at the beginning of the book and he's devoted a chapter to coding standards, reinforcing my own belief that good code presentation goes a long way towards good code. One of the things he neglects, Read More
posted Monday, March 10, 2008 4:34 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Shortcut keys for message boxes are evil

I'm sure everyone has at some stage been typing in an email message or word document (or for the weirdos - word perfect) and realised that something's just flashed on the screen but you missed it. It might have said something like "Your computer is about Read More
posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:34 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Data validation myth

This has been bugging me for a while now, and it finally came to me last week when I had to have this discussion with a couple of workmates and a client. Data validation isn't all it's cracked up to be. This client has been having some terrible trouble Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:31 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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One exit for tunnels only...

I have to come clean. For a long time, I've been a one-exit kind of guy. It stems from my earlier programming years and came from the desire to reduce spaghetti style coding. I used to enjoy being able to pick the point in time a routine exited, as I Read More
posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 11:13 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Windows Installer Search Engine

Windows installer is one of the best and worst things about developing on Windows. It's great that there's a unified, supported installation mechanism compared to Linux with the different package managers etc, but at the same time it's a royal pain to Read More
posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:02 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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DOS Batch Commands

This is a great post about the trickery you can do in DOS batch files. Read More
posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 8:29 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Databinding in Winforms 2.0

It's a bit of a BAS day today. There are a couple of nifty articles up on MSDN that I'd like to keep a track of. It's all about databinding. I can remember when it was a bad thing to do... Read More
posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:38 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Working with Windows Services at runtime

I've seen techniques similar to this in the past, and I know I'm going to "wish I could remember where I saw the code" at some stage in the future, so here it is for the BAS.Thanks, Ayende. Read More
posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:35 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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The real meaning of backing up

In the last week I've had this discussion a couple of times. Something the last two years of work have taught me about infrastructure is people's perception of backup is a little incorrect. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 10:25 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Naming conventions

Greg picks up on a thread from Jason Haley about UI control naming conventions, then goes on to argue for hungarian notation (i.e, txtFirstName vs. firstNameTextBox). Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 10:42 AM by Geoff | 2 Comments
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