March 2005 - Posts

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My Horror by hannes

As a developer being around the block a few times the biggest evil I come across is the lack of an understanding of object oriented programming principles by my peers in a OO environment. Programming for me is not a science it's art and I take great pride and satisfaction when I do something really clever to solve a problem especially if it's KISS. So you can understand my horror when I need to maintain code written by somebody who obviously have no clue of what happing in the world of programming...
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Design Tip of the Week by hannes

If you need to repeat ably validate your data against reference data investigate if you can use the singleton pattern for a reference data container. For more read here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Bye Bye VB by hannes

After more than 2 years of embracing VB.Net the company I work for decided the time is ripe to move towards C#. (The transition will be left in the hands of the developers it seems). Well to be honest I do not really care, both are just computer programming languages. Coming from C / C++ / Perl background getting my hands dirty with C# from the start would have been nice but learning and mastering VB.Net was definitely not time wasted. Well having said that there might be other opportunities opening...
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Cape Town is having a stroke by hannes

If you think of a city’s roads as its arteries then Cape Town is having a stroke. Since the start of the year things just got out of control. During the last couple of years the Western Cape has experienced a phenomenal growth in residential developments but little was done to build new roads to cope with all of this. It’s really too late to build more roads now because there is no land left and nobody is going to use an unsafe public transport system. The future does not look bright...
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.Net & SAP Interfacing by hannes

If anyone have experience to share about interfacing between .Net systems and SAP I would like to hear from you. Some good advise will be much appreciated. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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