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January 2004 - Posts

Hooked

Have just realised that I've posted at 10pm on a Saturday. I must be hooked on this blogging thing after all... Read More
posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:12 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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TextAloud update

Have tried TextAloud and am pretty impressed. The "free" voice is a bit mechanical, but I was listening to a few techie articles fine, right up until the battery in Muvo ran out :(The only problem was that the articles seemed to be about "C-number" and Read More
posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 9:59 PM by pdbartlett | 5 Comments
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Online coding challenge

Jamie "NUnitAddin" Cansdale (fellow UK .NET blogger) has set up Code Blog, where you can interactively "solve" a coding challenge by fleshing out a stub implementation until the provided unit tests succeed (very XP ;). Apparently he's in the Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 3:10 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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CLR Inlining

Eric Gunnerson has been answering a question about inlining in C# in particular, and the CLR in general (here and here). So it's not just me that was curious, then. Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 9:09 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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A couple of useful links

In a comment on Kent Sharkey's post, Greg Pyatt mentions Furl and TextAloud. I'd vaguely heard of the latter, but have now decided to give it a go, as my MuVo is definitely more train-friendly than my laptop. As for the former, it might help tame Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 8:59 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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MarshalByRefObject gripe

Does anyone else find it annoying that this behaviour is implemented via a base class? This is somewhat restrictive when only single inheritance is available. Why not go the way of serialization, and have a MarhalByRefAttribute for "standard" by-ref marshalling, Read More
posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:55 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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More .NET goodies

As my FreeTools.NET post still gets the odd hit, I thought I'd supplement it with a quick round-up of what's new(-ish) in the world of free .NET development stuff: NCover (via Chris Sells) NPerf (via James Avery) Tim Dawson's WinForms Read More
posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:51 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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"Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition" now available for free download

Probably old news, but I just noticed this as an "optional extra" when downloading Adobe Reader. Read More
posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:07 PM by pdbartlett | 5 Comments
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Myopia and software design

My secondary school physics teacher (the incomparable Mr Peter Rouse - if by chance you ever read this, hello and thank you) used to say that the key to solving problems in Newtonian mechanics was a carefully cultured, selective form of Read More
posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:33 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Welcome, Udi

Those of you who read Udi Dahan's blog (The Software Simplist) will already know he has joined us here at the 'dojo. If you don't yet, and you have an interest in development "in the large", I can highly recommend it. Read More
posted Friday, January 23, 2004 9:18 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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TheCodehaus revisted

As Tom (two mentions in one day :) has pointed out, I appear to have "faux-ed" it up in my last post on TheCodehaus, so have amended the post before incurring the wrath of BobTheDespot (or should that be BobThePedant ;) Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:28 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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An alternative to SourceForge and GDN Workspaces?

Whilst SourceForge is unashamedly "open source" and GDN has its own spin on licensing, there is now TheCodehaus for open source projects which are "commercially useful" and not "licensed under the GPL or other business-hostile licenses". Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:35 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Putting it all in context

I recently commented on one of Eric Gunnerson's posts, suggesting the use of CLR contexts. Damien Morton, to whom my comment was directed, has since correctly pointed out that it was a very off-hand reference and did not give much of a clue Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:36 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Another DM-er blogging

Via .NET Nightly 93: Aaron Skonnard is now blogging (feed here). I've learnt so much from DevelopMentor employees past and present over the years, and that's without ever attending a course ;) Subscribed, as they say... Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:50 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Xen: towards a Theory of Everything?

Kent Tegels (via Sam Cromer) points at an ExtemeTech article on Xen, a new language coming out of MSR and Cambridge University. It apparently addresses the "eternal trinity" of objects, XML and relational data. Which rather reminds me of an "Early Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:35 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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COM marshalling - aargh!

I thought the point of passing MSHLFLAGS_TABLEWEAK to CoMarshalInterface was not to affect the ref count of the object being marshalled, but in trying to diagnose an interface leak the empirical evidence seemed to suggest otherwise. There seemed to be Read More
posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:36 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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¿Que pasa?

Recently I've been devoting most of my spare time to (a) troubleshooting a graphics card/motherboard problem on my home PC prior to calling the manufacturer; and (b) WhaTBI?. Unfortunately, the manufacturer in question was Multivision, who I found Read More
posted Monday, January 19, 2004 12:46 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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N-tier vs. SOA

Udi Dahan has a nice post pointing out the benefits of SOA over N-tier (sorry, Udi, "layered" ;) architectures. Enjoy... Read More
posted Monday, January 19, 2004 9:13 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Log4PLSQL

Have just learnt (via OTN) that there's a Log4PLSQL which I take is it a port of Log4J to PL/SQL. As I've recently been most impressed by Log4CPlus, I guess I shall have to check this out. I wonder if there's a Log4TSQL... Read More
posted Monday, January 19, 2004 8:58 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Thinking is rethinking

Bruce Eckel's "Thinking About Computing" blog has a rethink about blogging (and everything). Enjoy... Read More
posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:44 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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New enterprise development resource

From Craig Andera: Ted Neward – a fellow DevelopMentor instructor – has taken a new job. He is the new editor in chief of TheServerSide.net (RSS here), a brand-new website that promises to focus on building enterprise applications in .NET. And even Read More
posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:09 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Paul Bartlett not out 50*

On this, the solemn occasion of my 50th post on this blog, I thought I'd reflect on some of the things I've learnt/achieved/done over the few months that I've been blogging. In no particular order: Written a couple of CodeProject articles. Neither Read More
posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:22 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Keyboard shortcuts

It seems that like Ian, I also don't know how to use Windows. Read More
posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:32 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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I don't care what the weather is like anywhere but right here

Us Brits are often parodied for always talking about the weather, but I've not noticed us blogging about it. I have two comments on this: What's the deal with all this surprise at it snowing in the winter? More seriously, there are many, many topics Read More
posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:09 AM by pdbartlett | 5 Comments
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SOA and interface-based programming

I suspect Steve Eichert is going to get a lot of comments with this one... Read More
posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:02 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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WhaTBI? and UMLet2 updates

Have just been putting UMLet2 through its paces by trying to consolidate my ideas on WhaTBI? before doing any more actual coding, so as promised, I'm reporting back on my experience. I tend to use UmlAsSketch, and as such found UMLet2 very handy. It's Read More
posted Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:54 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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RFCs

Steve Makofsky posts about RFC3092 The Etymology of Foo, mailed to him by Randy. My personal favourite, though, is RFC1149 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers... Read More
posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:35 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Optimisation and the C# compiler

Anyone know of any good references as to what sort of optimisations the /o+ switch enables? Over the weekend I was somewhat surprised at the (low) level of optimisation I was getting in the generated IL, given that the managed environment means that Read More
posted Monday, January 05, 2004 12:23 PM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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Back to the grind

Am back at work now, as I thought I'd break myself in gently with a one-day week. Trawling through everything that's gone on during my "downtime" (which was most enjoyable, if anyone is interested :) has thrown up a few items of interest: In addition Read More
posted Friday, January 02, 2004 2:49 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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