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May 2004 - Posts

WTF is this blog about?

Via Early & Adopter: And the "Best New Blog" award goes to: The Daily WFT. This rocks. Great when you need some brain candy. Subscribed, as they say. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:10 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Implementing ICloneable

Shawn A. van Ness has posted an article with good coverage of ways of implementing ICloneable. And for the surprise conclusion - C++-style copy constructors turn out to be very helpful. Read More
posted Monday, May 24, 2004 8:42 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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TechNet Security Briefing slides

Darrell Norton has posted that all the TechNet Security Briefing slides are now available from here. Read More
posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:25 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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TemplateMetaProgramming

A year or so back I had a brief look at Alexandrescu's "Modern C++ Design". As I have reasonably extensive experience of the "xTL trilogy" of ATL, WTL & STL I had considered myself a fairly advanced user (or possibly abuser in ATL's case ;) of C++ Read More
posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:16 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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The Top 10 Elements of Good Software Design

More goodness from Hacknot. If you've not already subscribed, now would be a very good time... Read More
posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:45 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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VirtualByDefault

Now it's Eric's turn to open up a cans of worms, this time over whether methods should default to be virtual or final. Here are links to his posts (so far) on the topic. Virtual by default or not? More on virtual by default As usual, much of Read More
posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:21 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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ADOMD.NET

Via yesterday's edition of Peter Provost's GeekNotes: ADOMD.NET - Fresh out of beta! "ADOMD.NET is a .NET object model, used for building client data access applications, for accessing an XML for Analysis (XMLA) 1.1 compliant data provider, such as that Read More
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:22 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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What's your bloginality?

[Via Tejas] My Bloginality is INTP (Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Perceiving), and it's a bit too close for comfort on some of it's analysis. Not sure there's any particular relevance to blogging, though... Read More
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:51 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Don the Deconstructor / Box the Builder

Don adds "Deconstructing ASMX" to his previous post, "Deconstructing Remoting". There are also a couple of posts on how Indigo has been shaping up recently. Aside: Judging by the title of this post, I think I'm watching too much kid's Read More
posted Monday, May 17, 2004 10:20 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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BartyBliki

I've recently been noticing just how self-referential my 'blog is becoming. Just like a wiki, you might say. So that would make it a bliki, I'd likely reply, as I'm a big fan of Martin Fowler (I really should have avoided using his name the day after Read More
posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:30 PM by pdbartlett | 6 Comments
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What's happening?

Well, it's nothing on the scale of Ingo et al. with ThinkTecture, but I'm also on a bit of a move job-wise. I've resigned from my position at Thomson Financial (perhaps now I'll be able to read Bill Evjen's blog without feeling it's an act of corporate Read More
posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:38 PM by pdbartlett | 6 Comments
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More from IanG on locking

IanG continues his recent "mini-series" on locking in .NET with a post that redresses the balance a bit by pointing out when the ReaderWriterLock can be a better choice than his excellent Monitor-derived TimedLock (a whole Read More
posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:45 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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WTL is now open-source

Following the trail blazed by Rob Mensching's WiX toolkit, WTL has transitioned from an unsupported MS product to an open source one. Thanks go to Rob for (a) starting the trend, (b) the excellent WiX toolkit itself, and (c) alerting me to WTL's Read More
posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:01 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Useful looking accessibility checking tool

Yesterday I lamented my lack of knowledge on accessibility issues. But today, as if by magic, an automated tool appears (apologies for paraphrasing Mr Ben in a techinical post :). And where did I find out about it? Why, the PowerToys blog, of course... Read More
posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:19 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Bill Venners on inheritance vs. composition

[Via Vijay]: Inheritance versus composition: Which one should you choose? - by Bill Venners of Artima fame. In his own words, its a comparative look at two fundamental ways to relate classes. A must read. Did I ever mention that I'd really like it if Read More
posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:49 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Eric on localisation

Eric has a nice post on useful approaches to localisation. I wholeheartedly agree with his suggestion of using a "string server" class, and have done so many times before. The idea of pseudo-localisation was new to me, though, but sounds Read More
posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:09 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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BOFH via RSS

This might be old news to some, but The Register's inimitable BOFH (Simon Travaglia) now has an RSS feed. Dilbert and the BOFH - what more could a developer ask for? :) Read More
posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:19 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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AssemblyToVisio and UMLet 3

Also mentioned on the PowerToys blog was AssemblyToVisio, which reminded me of a question someone posted on their blog a while back re: keeping the UML docs and code in sync. I could not find the post, but in looking did discover that a beta Read More
posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:45 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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PowerToys blog

[UPDATE: the add-in can now be found here. Thanks to Adam Nathan for the wiki, the add-in and taking the time out to let me know of the move...] Thanks to Kent Sharkey for pointing out a most excellent PowerToys blog, and the very useful Read More
posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 1:24 PM by pdbartlett | 6 Comments
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Joel on Knowledge

Joel has just posted his foreword to Mike Gunderloy's interesting looking new book, "Coder to Developer". Aside2: Looks like my "aside" in yesterday's post, had me well on the way to being a software developer, but unfortunately I didn't fully realise Read More
posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:43 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Scott Mitchell on ASP.NET HTTP Handlers

I've just read Scott's new MSDN article, which I'd been putting off for a couple of days as I thought I knew a little about the subject, having written at least one useful handler myself. What I did not realise, though, is that you can map to handler Read More
posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:09 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Resurrection is not ALWAYS bad

[UPDATED: On the way home I remembered the Environment.ShutdownStarted property, and an unrelated visit to Brad Abrams blog both confirmed this to be what I needed and reminded me that this post had "unfinished business"] I've recently been Read More
posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:27 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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