Programming, systems engineering, and all things IT
In the news this morning, I stumbled across an article, EU: 100 million Microsoft users to choose browser. Reading this, there were a few instances of questionable logic.
The first instance (emphasis added):
Microsoft is starting this month to send updates to Windows computers in Europe so that when computer users log on, they will see a [...]
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“Optimize your code for maintainability before optimizing for performance.” – Matthew Cochran, Microsoft MVP
So true… it deserves its place right next to YAGNI!
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I’ve recently started working with Outlook Redemption, an excellent alternative to direct MAPI calls. Some of the other devs on my team wrote some libraries that use it, complete with unit tests. All the code and unit tests run fine on my machine (VS2008, 64-bit Windows).
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While scanning Google News, I saw an article that mentioned the re-launched Republican National Committee web site, gop.com, and decided to take a look at it. The verdict, in short: if they are the party of new ideas, they are also the party that makes the same old stupid mistakes on their web sites.
First, let’s [...]
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Every now and then I stumble across a feature in an application or web site that is just too good not to mention. Today, it happened when using Balsamiq Mockups.
Like many people, I use lorem ipsum placeholder text. When I want large, random blocks of ‘lorem ipsum’ text, I use the Lipsum Generator; today, I [...]
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