Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/28
Shelving work into a shelveset is easy in Visual Studio. Until Visual Studio 2010 it was easy to find the shelveset.
As of Visual Studio 2012 this is much more difficult. To get the shelveset back in Visual Studio 2012 and up:
–jeroen
via: Can anybody find the TFS “Unshelve” option in Visual Studio 2012? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/22
See the gist below:
Example of xsd2code only handling xsd annotations for attributes, not for elements, types and other places where they can be used in an XSD.
Steps to reproduce:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/16
During a recent code review, I bumped into a couple of C# constructors having boolean parameters, leading to the dreaded magic booleans code smell.
This reminded me of the infamous Avoiding Booleans post on Coding Horror, which now is almost 10 years old.
To celebrate, I will coin the Dutch phrase when marking these in a review:
Boolean parameters en literals zijn vrijwel altijd een zwaktebod. Een teken dat beter nagedacht moet worden over het doel van de code.
The Dutch word zwaktebod is used when bidding Bridge using the Acol system. It is the equivalent of a “weak takeout” response to a bid of 1 NT (notrump or no trump, in other languages sometimes sans atout).
The English translation is just about this:
Boolean parameters and literals virtually always are a sign of weakness. It indicates you need to give more thought to the goal of the code.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/15
Thanks [Wayback] Jørn Einar Angeltveit for sharing this a while ago:
A session by Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony (which has strong teeth) presented during the Polish DevDay 2013 in Kraków, Poland.
[Wayback] +Jon Skeet’s speech [Wayback] “Back to basics” is really a good watch.
In a funny way, he explains why the simplest fundamentals of computer software text, dates and numbers can cause some real headache for the programmer…
In case you didn’t know: Jon Skeet is “Chuck Norris” on [Wayback] stackoverflow.com:
The subtitle is “the mess we’ve made of our fundamental data types”.
Some of the topics covered:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/08
Interesting. Not only about Delphi history, as Chuck has done so much more nice things.
His blog: removingalldoubt.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/01
Very interesting:
Kernel object names are optional. Don’t give them a name unless you intend them to be shared.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] You can name your car, and you can name your kernel objects, but there is a qualitative difference between the two – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/30
A long while ago, someone (it was too long ago, so I sincerely forgot who, it probably was in the JBuilder era) told me that I should try out Ruby and Scala.
I did take a short look at Ruby back then, but since Ruby was so focussed on Web Development, and my heart really wasn’t there, postponed it to the times that the Web would be hot for me.
Then I should have taken a look at Scala (which compiles to Java bytecode), but since I abandoned Java (JBuilder wasn’t nice, Java programming was slow and modern IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse weren’t there yet).
Now that I’ve done truckloads of work in the .NET and Delphi world (including domain specific languages and Pascal based products), I bumped into these Scala videos by Venkat Subramaniam:
Boy, I should have taken a look earlier: like Delphi and C# it is a statically typed compiled language, but it is on steroids.
Yes, I know it leans on the Java bytecode as a run-time platform, but so does the Android SDK as one of the Java Platforms. Contrary Ruby, which with IronRuby runs on .NET and RubyMotion runs Mac and iOS, Scala does not run on the .NET platform any more.
Given the witty way of presenting I’m surely going to follow Venkat Subramaniam and watch some of his other videos too.
Shortly after watching the above I bumped into this video by Steve Yegge (Google): Dynamic Languages Strike Back – YouTube.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/25
The Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET – CodeProject article is a big peek into the content of the book Writing High-Performance .NET Code | Get the best performance out of your .NET code.
Both are highly recommended.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24
I’ve been doing Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in .NET for a long while, mostly using PostSharp LAOS as that was the first AOP .NET library I encountered (5 years ago it became PostSharp 2.0, now it is already at its 10th anniversary!).
AOP allows you to perform separate of concerns (SoC) in your application, especially in the area of cross-cutting concerns like for instance logging, authorization, monitoring, etc.
It took a while in Delphi to allow for AOP, but the TVirtualMethodInterceptor (that introduced in Delphi 2010) can be used to do AOP (only for Virtual Methods, which is still way better than having no AOP at all).
The code requires a lot of manual labor. so I was glad that DSharp (a great library by Stefan Glienke – one of the leading Spring4D contributors) contains a nice wrapper around TVirtualMethodInterceptor so you can use AOP in an attribute based fashion.
Nick Hodges recorded a good introductory video on AOP in Delphi with slides and demo code:
Note that besides DSharp, also MeAOP and Infra provided support for AOP in Delphi, but these haven’t had updates since 2010.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/18
Inversion of Control example video on YouTube: business class is not in control of the DAL.
It uses C#, but the code is so simple that every programmer should be able to get it.
Uses:
Inversion of Control (IoC) can later be amended by Dependency Injection (DI), but IoC can easily without that be used very effectively without DI.
I wish the What is…? series had more than 1 episode, but Christian Richards does have some interesting series about game development.
–jeroen
via: duidelijk voorbeeld.
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