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• Coder To Developer - Rave or Rage?

  I picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy's Coder To Developer book the other day and did something I rarely do with a technical book - I read it from cover to cover. I've read several reviews of the book and find that they range from rave to rage . The typical... Posted Aug 06 2004, 09:57 AM by bkcarroll with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Related, General

• Parentheses and Order of Operations

  It's a good idea to be explicit with parentheses when building arithmetic expressions. For example, at first the following code doesn't look like it would cause a problem: Dim i As Integer = 1 i = i + i - i Console.Writeline(i) Executing this code will... Posted Jun 10 2004, 03:59 PM by bkcarroll with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Related, General

• Should programmers be able to convert from decimal to binary?

  When I'm interviewing candidates for a development position I typically write a number down and ask them to convert it from decimal to binary. Of course this is a very minor factor in the interview, but I find it interesting to see their responses. It... Posted Jun 05 2004, 12:30 AM by bkcarroll with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Related, General

• Virtual Desktop Manager

  I've been tinkering with Linux lately and one of my favorite KDE features is the desktop switcher. Tonight I found Virtual Desktop Manager , a Microsoft PowerToy that does basically the same thing. It looks promising so far. Update: This thing was really... Posted May 19 2004, 08:34 PM by bkcarroll with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Related, General

• Book Gripe

  While reading chapter 4 of the MSPress “Inside Microsoft Visual Studio.NET“ book, I ran across this paragraph: “ By right-clicking on a macro in Macro Explorer, you can bring up a shortcut menu that lets you work with the macro directly... Posted May 13 2004, 04:25 PM by bkcarroll with | with no comments Filed under: .NET Related, General