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The Daily WTF

There used to be the best website, called the Daily WTF, out there where as a developer you could submit the most ridiculous gems of "code" you happen to stumble across in your everyday existence... Reading through the various posts and comments used to provide me with some light hearted relief...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 02-04-2008
MSDN Subscriber site implements great error handling ....

So with all the hype about Visual Studio 2008 that has RTM'D I rushed on over to my favorite browser and headed off to the subscriber download site; only to be greeted with the following ... Let's hope the product is better than the download site!

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 11-19-2007
The value of decent & descriptive exception messages and the BizTalk adapter for BizTalk 2006.

I am currently working on this really cool integration project where I'm automating a number of business processes using BizTalk orchestrations. The data comes in through a variety of sources and trading partners and ultimately gets pumped in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 using the adapter built by...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 11-07-2007
The Utopia of software development ....

Let me start out my saying that I simply love the writings of Joel Spolsky [ more about him ], CEO of FogCreek Software , and have been a follower of his well written and well thought out essays on software development and management on his Weblog "Joel on Software" ( http://www.joelonsoftware...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 08-29-2007
C++ vs C# vs VB.NET

OK this post isn't really about this, so lemme back track a little and then you'll see where I am coming from with this. I am the proud owner of Programming C# by Jesse Liberty (Great book on the whole). Whilst skimming through it this morning looking for something particular I noticed an interesting...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 08-02-2007
How to write code with invisible ink ....

I stumbled on this pretty cool article by Tim Rayburn on the use of System.Diagnostics.Debug .... "There is one very important thing you need to know about this object and all its methods: You are writing code in invisible ink! Now I am sure you are going, "that's it, Rayburn has finally...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 07-20-2007
Refactor this, refactor that .....

I am sure you have all at least heard of ReSharper from Jetbrains and perhaps like me you figured what's the big deal .... Why should I go buy yet another Visual Studio plugin that does what Visual Studio already does out of the box ..... Well lemme tell you a story .... It all started the other...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 06-05-2007
Recursive lambda expressions

I feel it very neccessary at this point to warn you that this is most certainly not for the faint hearted ... As the author, Dr T. , of the original post says; this might not be practical but it sure is fun. "People sometimes complain that you cannot write a lambda expression that is recursive....

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 05-24-2007
New plugin for Ludz's Reflector

All this talk of Silverlight has got me stoked .... the problem is two-fold, firstly I aint a web developer by any stretch of the imagination and secondly I just do not have the time to sit and play with the technology when there are just so many new toys out on the net at the moment; so when i came...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 05-23-2007
LINQ and all things .NET 3

My thanks must go to Armand for his great talk and demo on Linq and the new language features in .NET 3.0 that drive it in the background. I really learnt a lot and it was great to see working demo where he linked a List<Customer> with a strongly typed database object using an xml document and...

Posted to A world apart from the everday ... (Weblog) by Ryan CrawCour on 05-10-2007

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