| 1. |  | Build Scalability  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
As soon as a project gets to a certain size developers want to break it up to decrease their turnaround time for changes. The common solution is to have a set of headers in a 'common' include directory that is separated from the source, the idea being that as long as you're not touching those headers you can build the subdirectories of source independently of each other without worrying about dependency issues.
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| 2. | | How Should Software Be Built? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
My chief issues with the way that software is built
(not the processes around designing it, figuring out feature
sets, taking it to market, all of that -- rather, how it goes
from lines in text files to machine instructions) is that it
goes the wrong direction and the concepts are 20-30 years old.
Full article ==> How Should Software Be Built?
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| 3. | | Foundations: Installation - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I've already done a short rant on software installation, but this time I want to go into more details and give some background on why I think people tend to get it wrong so often.
Full article ==> Foundations: Installation
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| 4. | | Foundations: Globalization - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
For too many software products, localization is something that blindsides the product team either late in the cycle (near release date) or after the English release. You have a successful product, you're selling like hotcakes, and now your sales team wants to expand into Europe, Asia, South America, Africa... anywhere they can make money! Then begins a trek up a steep learning curve and often the need to rewrite large portions of code to take into account all the differences between ...
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| 5. | | Foundations: Window Handling - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
My 'Foundations' series will be a set of articles on what constitutes the foundations of a solid, world-class GUI application. In other word, what is the minimum bar to be considered serious software? That minimum bar is higher than most people think, which is why most successful companies and projects have very ugly growing pains after they go from "Good enough to get to market and make some money" and head towards "Competing against the big software houses in global markets".
Thes...
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| 6. | | Software Installation Sucks - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
This has been a beef of mine recently, and installing CityDesk reaffirmed it. Software installation sucks.
Full article ==> Software Installation Sucks
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| 7. | | Aurora, Once Again - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I'm now going to try CityDesk from Fog Creek Software and see how it goes. I tried an older version a while back and was not impressed by a few aspects of it, but am giving v2.0 a shot because.
Full article ==> Aurora, Once Again
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| 8. | | XSD gripe 3 - Substitution groups - Captured: 31-1-2005 17:03:00
I may be missing something here, but I really don't understand what problem/ scenarios the substitution group feature is trying to solve. I am unclear why Substitution groups are even needed. If an element Foo is the same type or a derived type of an element Bar, it seems like that I should be able to freely substitute all I want without needing to statically declare the set.
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| 9. | | Is anyone really buying this? - Captured: 6-1-2005 22:34:00
A data layer is all about abstracting the explicit boundary between the application/ domain model and the persistence datasource. Although this boundary can never be totally transparent, the data layer does its best to expose the persistence data in a way which can be easily and suitably utilized by domain model. A simple example is accessing a file through a reader interface which abstracts the user from the underlying details of reading a file from disk. A more compl...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 10. | | Note enough commute time - Captured: 5-1-2005 11:14:00
About a 1 ½ years ago, I decided to purchase an iPod and get a membership with audible.com (which I highly recommend) in an effort to “read� more. Since the birth of my second child in mid-2003, my amount of free leisure time had been drastically cut and hence my reading time had become almost non-existence. I am pleased to announce that this experiment has been quite successful, and in fact – I am basically stopped listening to the radio during my 70 minutes of total commute...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 11. | | XSD gripe 2 – DataType hell - Captured: 30-12-2004 12:43:00
I know I am just the latest in a long line of people to “comment� on this subject – but I just wanted to give my two cents. I appreciate the fact that the XSD designers wanted to vastly enrich my datatype life. But why come up with a bunch of built-in SimpleType datatypes which are just derivations of other SimpleTypes when you gave me a nice mechanism for doing so myself? If I really want a nonPositiveInteger – then I can easily define it myself using constrain...
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| 12. | | Fowler - The King - Captured: 28-12-2004 18:25:00
For the IoC amateurs (like myself) out there - Fowler has a very good introduction using the style of P of EAA. Also, some very good updates to P of EAA here. The amazing thing is this guy writes stuff faster then I can grok it.
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 13. | | Working from home and a nice dinner - Captured: 30-12-2004 22:05:06
Been working at home all week, which has turned out pretty well. I don't think I'll
have house fever before our trip this weekend.
I got in one bike ride from Tracy Owen park to Redmond because it looked like a sunshiny
day. Unfortunately most of the ride was in a cold fog and I popped an inner tube
after running into some glass. I met some nice folks and learned that a lot of people
use a ~15 mph pace with an early start and a pace line to do STP in one day. I...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 14. | | Hanukah and Biking Weekend - Captured: 13-12-2004 22:55:56
Had a pretty busy weekend, Friday night was the our holiday party, which was pretty
decent once my headache went away and I could enjoy the band. The Dancing Heads room
was especially enjoyable. They use green screen technology to get a video of just
your head and then overlay it on to a video of headless dancers keyed to a the playing
of a popular song. The results are VERY amusing.
Saturday I woke up and joined a cascade cycle ride for what should have been a 40
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From: Doubt's Log |
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| 15. | | Friday 12/6/2004 - Captured: 7-12-2004 0:16:01
Addicted to Digitial Media has a link
to the Halo 2 RSS Excel Woorkbook,
a video of learning
to fly in Halo 2, and a XP
Video Decoder Checkup Utility.
Vik recommends NPR peice on what
is wrong with talking heads style journalism.
Oops, This didn't get posted on friday.
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 16. | | The cost of software - Captured: 15-1-2005 8:07:00
As I suspected, some folks (based on feedback on the blog and email to me), made some points about cost - specifically, saying that SPS is too expensive. Above and beyond the points I made in my quite lengthy blog entry, fundamentally, you must ask yourself - "what exactly do you want to do today and where do you want to go?" The first, obvious point that I didn't mention in my most recent blog entry in the TCO section is that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is part of the Windows Server ...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 17. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 18. | | SharePoint Portal Server Extranet Whitepaper released - Captured: 13-1-2005 7:02:00
Still on vacation (get back to work on Monday), but had to post some very important news: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document: Deploying on an Extranet by Using ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004, as promised, was released recently. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-451D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en.
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 19. | | SharePoint MSDN RSS Feed - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:00:00
We hosted an Architect Portals Bootcamp last week in the Seattle area. I was impressed with the different projects the architects were involved with. However, one thing that I did notice, based on comments and questions some of the attendees had when I spoke to them, is that many folks out there are not familiar with all the whitepapers we post on sites such as MSDN and TechNet. With the growing popularity of RSS and to make it easier for people to get notified when a new whitepaper is rel...
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| 20. | | I got a new SmartPhone - Captured: 27-1-2005 20:29:00
I got myself an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone today. This thing is amazing. It syncs to my outlook server for mail and calendar. It has IE on it. I can play movies and music on it. It came with all the cables to sync up to my computer like a PDA. And it is very snappy to use. Screen is a good resolution too. And you can use it like a phone without any hassles. Where will these things be in 5 years? The fact that I could compress 10 DVDs onto a card and play them on my phone is amazing to me - I di...
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| 21. | | Table editing feedback - Captured: 15-10-2004 20:07:00
For lack of anything better to post, I would like to get an idea of what people think of the table editing in the HTML/ASPX designer in whidbey. I spent a lot of time trying to improve this area. After VS.NET 2003 I rewrote some parts of this code, hoping to create something that was more powerful and easier to use. For example: Selecting rows and columns is hopefully easier now with the selection widgets that we added. Selecting cells should be easier now (you can hold down CTRL to get an Exce...
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| 22. | | Responding to feedback - Auto Position feature has been added to the designer - Captured: 28-9-2004 16:22:00
After hearing a lot of support for the idea of automatically positioning controls, I got the go ahead to implement the feature. The fact that we are able to respond to what customers ask for is very encouraging - I hope that this and other examples (such as Mikhail's) will help to create a positive feedback loop where we implement more suggestions, so people are more likely to communicate with us, and therefore we get more data, which allows us to even better implement suggestions, and so on. He...
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| 25. | | CES 2005 Video is Online - Captured: 20-1-2005 23:12:29
Apparently the CES
2005 video is (finally) online. Watching the show made a couple of thing crystal
clear:
1.) BillG and humor
Formerly I imagined Bill to be the kind of person who could say funny things
about his work, the kind of person who doesn't take himself too seriously in public
and who could answer to a humorous comment equally amusingly. I kind of missed that. If
something breaks on stage (And, thanks to Murphy, thats quite often) it's...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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