April 2007 - Posts

• Jumping around code and technologies

  I should should consider myself very lucky and nicely challenged. I've been jumpingdaily around the following code and technologies the past few months. Charp 1.1 and 2.0 ASP.Net 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 VB 6 - VB.Net SQL 2000 - 2005 ASP Delphi OCXs , 'true' windows services and Front-ends - - I hate this with compassion Ranging from websites , web services, windows services, windows front-endsto the shittiest 21 scripts 'SQL Jobs' What kept me going? I do not know. Maybe the programming challenge. No wonder I wanna retire one day as a farmer. Farming with sheep in the middle of nowhere.Maybe close to Beaufort-West. Where no-one knows me. No-one that will talk about bubblesorts, control breaks, CSharp, VB, dictionary objects, interfaces, inheritance and all the word 'software architecture'.  Regards The code farmer Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Apr 30 2007, 10:57 PM by auratius Filed under: ASP, Auratius, auratius.co.za, csharp, delphi, development

• User Interface Design Guidelines

  I am currently doing my Btech in Information Technology at Unisa. For Advanced Development Software my lecturer decided to "introduce" us to Object Oriented CSharp I got last week to the User Interface Design guidelines and would like to quote them: Try to make your application’s UI look similar to other popular Windows applications Simpler is usually better All forms should be usable on a computer with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels All forms should have appropriate values set for ControlBox, FormBorderStyle, etc. They are simple but after going through some of my old apps. They are 1024 screen friendly and sometimes the users caanot view them on their small monitors. Let me not tell you about using orange in one of the coporate systems and they let me through. Yah. But I've learned my lesson. Functionality comes before beauty. Did I tell you next time I wanna try shaped forms. Auratius http://www.auratius.co.za     Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Apr 27 2007, 08:27 PM by auratius with 20 comment(s) Filed under: assembly, auratius.co.za, c#, code review, code tester, development, Global Assembly Cache, methodology, programming, review