September 2005 - Posts

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Bush ...(I couldn't resist) by hannes

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President Bush his daily briefing on Iraq . He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed." "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?" Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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All about Nothing by hannes

You still using Nothing to 'destroy' objects in VB.NET ? Well, looks like your doiing all for nothing. Another difference between the garbage collection systems involves the use of Nothing. To take advantage of reference counting, programmers using previous versions of Visual Basic sometimes assign Nothing to object variables in order to release the references those variables hold. If the variable holds the last reference to the object, the object's resources are released immediately. In Visual Basic...
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LINQ ? by hannes

“So what is LINQ all about“, I asked myself. Look at examples here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Datasets vs Custom Business Objects by hannes

Last week I had the opportunity to experiment with replacing datasets with custom business objects. Lately there was a whole lot of debating why not to use datasets. The main reason given is that datasets are not true to object orientation. Performance wise I did not notice a big difference between populating and reading datasets versus custom business objects. Using dataset however is more tricky because your using data type casting all the time. As a rule of thumb I will say that when selecting...
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Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now by hannes

I rediscovered this link while looking for NUnit. Have a look, it's the read worth. Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Refactoring by hannes

One of my favourite activities is to take code (does not always have to be my own) , rip it apart and make a rocket out of a tortoise. And believe me there are plenty of tortoises in my neighbourhood. ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=refactoring ) refactoring Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with...
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My Bank by hannes

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Pushing the limit by hannes

I am currently working on project that will allow our users to do complicated recondition of financial data over our intranet. . My common sense tells me that what we are trying to do is to intensive for a web application because of the difficulties keeping state. (Web development Achilles heal if you ask me.) I have come up with an alternative for Session or View States but we will have to see if it's working in real life. I am using a shared hash table with a sessionid as the table key. The concept...
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Matric is a joke by hannes

According to News24 South African Matric will get even easier from 2008. Matriculants in 2008 will need three "E" and four "F" symbols to pass the new national senior certificate. This means a candidate must get 40% in his home language, in life skills and another subject and a 30% minimum in his other subjects to pass. For a diploma, a candidate will need the minimum requirement plus four subjects - apart from life skills - passed at level 3 (40%-49%). To study for a degree, a candidate needs the...
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Testing, testing and more testing by hannes

Today will be the fourth day I'm spending developing Test Case documention. Although it's extremely boring and time consuming it helped me find quite a few bugs allready. For every bug that you find there are two that you did not find. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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