Unit testing, your greatest maintenance tool

submitted by justinbezanson 1 month, 1 day ago

geekdaily.net — There are many times I wish real life could be maintained like a software program. In true SlashDot form I am going to try an make my case for Unit Testing with a car analogy (mind you probably a bad one). To me writing software without writing unit tests is like me working on my car... read more...

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Object Oriented Programming Is Your Foundation

submitted by justinbezanson 1 month, 8 days ago

geekdaily.net — Object Oriented Programming is going to be the foundation of everything we talk about from here on out. OOP provides huge power and flexibility later on down the line when we discuss techniques to help in the maintainability of our code. As a side note, you will find that I tote maintainability as a hugely important factor. To me, maintenence is the biggest comsumption of development resources whether it be through bug fixes or adding new features. Anything that can make code easier to maintain long term is, in my book, worth exploring. read more...

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Advanced tableless forms

submitted by justinbezanson 2 months, 12 days ago

geekdaily.net — I am always looking for easy ways to use less tables in my markup. When designing a website I always aim for no tables but in a web application I may cheat from time to time. Some time ago, thanks to an article on quirksmode, I began creating tableless forms. This trick was great for simple forms but I kept using tables for really complicated forms. read more...

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SqlDateTime.TryParse, almost

submitted by justinbezanson 5 months, 4 days ago

geekdaily.net — I talked about an issue I ran into between DateTime.MinValue and SqlDateTime.MinValue in a previous post. One other point I noticed while researching the topic was that, unlike almost all other types, SqlDateTime doesn’t have a TryParse method. read more...

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JavaScript defining and using custom events

submitted by justinbezanson 5 months, 4 days ago

geekdaily.net — Simply, a custom event is something that happens that you feel is important enough to define actions to execute when this something happens. Clear as mud? I think I confused even myself. A custom event is just like a native event (onclick, onload, etc) except you define what it is and when it should fire. read more...

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How Rockstars nest Repeater controls in ASP.Net

submitted by justinbezanson 6 months, 8 days ago

geekdaily.net — A couple of days ago while I was busy coding I ran into problem where I needed to nest Repeaters. There were a number of articles I found but they all dealt with nested Repeater controls using a DataSet as the data source but I needed to use a custom collection (List<T>). read more...

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Adobe Responds To Silverlight

published 6 months, 10 days ago, submitted by justinbezanson 6 months, 10 days ago

geekdaily.net — The move that Adobe is making is to include the ability in include C, C++, Java, Python, and Ruby code into Flash that will get comiled into ActionScript. This is a smart move by Adobe which will strengthen Flash and remove the major reason a developer might decide to switch to Silverlight. read more...

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Adventures in creating controls - Know your application lifecycle

submitted by justinbezanson 7 months ago

geekdaily.net — I have been developing Composite Controls lately for ASP.Net. I am trying to focus on clean separation of code and adhering to DRY principles whenever possible. This has lead me to using controls in an attempt to make my application modules more “pluggable” with the application core. So far this has been working quite well but I am being forced to investigate the lifecycle of the different components of my application when I encounter results that I wasn’t expecting. read more...

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