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  • What do you call this job ?
    D Don Kackman

    Systems Analyst is the job title as you are indeed analyzing new IT systems, both as part of their creation (review of specs etc) and implementation (testing). My guess is you'll find yourself doing most of things listed here (perhaps with the exception of ongoing support: http://hiring.monster.com/hr/hr-best-practices/recruiting-hiring-advice/job-descriptions/systems-analyst-job-description.aspx[^]

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Windows 9 is in trouble, Microsoft to make drastic changes to its plans?
    D Don Kackman

    I think they should resurrect Microsoft Bob as the default shell. Everybody loved Bob!

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Thanks Sacha
    D Don Kackman

    Can you link the particualr article? I'd like to read it (cause I think I've been implementing MVVM and would like to be sure!) and couldn't find the right one.

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • To like or dislike C Sharp
    D Don Kackman

    It's been awhile since I've worked in C++ but as I skim stackoverflow and glance at the occasional specificaiton or example of C++11 I can't help but think to myself that it has become an amalgam of every computer language trend since C. How anybody figures out to write C++11 coherently, using the correct language features, at the correct time in the correct way is now beyond me. So I for one do not miss friend classes or private inheritance (or multiple inheriteance for that matter). I say Yay C# for its relative simplicity!

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • You know you've been playing too much World of Warcraft when...
    D Don Kackman

    /dance

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • The 7-bit Internet
    D Don Kackman

    Terrence Dorsey wrote:

    Obscurity and obsessive abstraction are two of the worst problems that affect software development.

    Too true. http://xkcd.com/974/[^]

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

    The Insider News oop tutorial workspace

  • The filename did not contain valid characters
    D Don Kackman

    Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

    Site Bugs / Suggestions com help question announcement

  • The filename did not contain valid characters
    D Don Kackman

    Cool. Shall we try again?

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

    Site Bugs / Suggestions com help question announcement

  • The filename did not contain valid characters
    D Don Kackman

    Hey Chris, I am seeing this same error suddenly. I had saved a version or two of an aritcle in process but now I can't submit updates. Don

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Woot - got my touchpad
    D Don Kackman

    So I picked up one of those firesale touchpads and of course loaded android on it right away. I gotta say, of three tablet OS's I've used (ios, webos and android) I prefer webos by far. Too bad it's future is, well, uncertain to say the least.

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • WP7
    D Don Kackman

    I've got the HTC HD7 (TMobile) which I am very happy with. The OS itself is pretty slick and full featured (all of my previous phones were either windows mobile or blackberry so that may not be a valid comparison ;P ) Biggest thing for me, being a MS developer, WP7 gives me the ability to do some mobile app development wihtout having to learn a new technology stack or, heaven forbid, try to understand objective c.

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • HTC HD 7 Pro vs. HTC HD7
    D Don Kackman

    I haven't used the Pro but I do love my HD7. The virtual keybaord is adequate for my needs for occasional texts, short emails, web address typing and short note taking.

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Got my WP7
    D Don Kackman

    I've been thinking of adding codeporject rss feeds to this one. CP Vanity for Windows Phone 7[^] I'd totally be up for making it an open project if anyone is interested.

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Technical blog not syncing
    D Don Kackman

    Ah. That makes sense. I figured it was something simple. Didn't realize there was a size rule. Thanks Kunal

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • Technical blog not syncing
    D Don Kackman

    Hey guys, Not sure if this a bug or a glitch or I'm just doing something wrong, but my technical blog over at blog spot hasn't synced in quite some time. I've got CodeProject in the tags and have added the rel link. http://spookycoding.blogspot.com/[^] Any clues? Don

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

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  • That's an useless class
    D Don Kackman

    This is the best part of the class

    doud wrote:

    public static string GetGuid() { return Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); }

    Maybe rename the class to DateTimeExtendedGetNewGuidAsString

    10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

    The Weird and The Wonderful

  • Nullabilityatastic
    D Don Kackman

    You could write a generic helper class for that.

    static class TypedNull
    {
    public static T GetNull<T>()
    {
    return null as T;
    }
    }

    billAmount != null ? billAmount.CurrencyAsShort : TypedNull.GetNull<short?>()

    10 PRINT Software is hard. - D Knuth 20 GOTO 10

    modified on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:49 PM

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  • Some things will always suck in .Net, I guess
    D Don Kackman

    Ever since the horrors of MFC's CArchive I've stayed away from built in serialization routines for anything except inter-process transfer of object state where both sides of conversation are guaranteed to agree on object versioning and layout. IMHO using some platform dependent mechanism, especially one that persists an opaque binary data structure, to persist object state ties you to that platform for the life of the application or means some messy translation code to migrate stored objects to the next platform, or even the next version of your objects. My $0.02: if you're going to persist an object to a database or file system, do it in such a way that you'll be able to deserialize that object 2-3 years from now with some completely other technology than the one you're using today; i.e. if it ain't Xml don't persist it. :-O

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  • NDoc 1.3 beta 1 released
    D Don Kackman

    The NDoc development team is pleased to announce the release of the of NDoc 1.3 beta 1. This release addresses a number of bugs and includes numerous feature requests. The new NDoc User’s Guide contains a complete list of bug fixes and RFE’s. NDoc 1.3 can be installed side by side with earlier version of NDoc and the installer supports both .NET 1.0 and 1.1, as well as the MONO framework. Additional highlights include: • A complete re-implementation of the Html Help 2 documenter. The new VS.NET Documenter creates Html Help 2 topics, with fully populated XML data islands, resulting in much better integration with the Visual Studio help system. • An extensibility feature that allows you to define your own code comment tags and control their formatting. • Support for new code commenting tags like , , and . • Support for the ObsoleteAttribute. • User interface and performance enhancements. • Better consistency between NDoc generated topics and MSDN topics. Source code and the installer for NDoc 1.3 beta 1 can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057 We have also recently added an NDoc users' mailing list intended for questions, tips, tricks, and discussion about using NDoc. You can subscribe to ndoc-users at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ndoc-users Cheers, The NDoc Team

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  • need urgent help!
    D Don Kackman

    OK, one last idea and then I'm out of suggestions: Have you tried looping through the Application::Documents collection looking for a file with the dsw extension?

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