June 2003 - Posts

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About code generators / generating code by FransBouma

James Avery blogs about an article written by a person who calls himself 'Angry Coder' (I thought people called me that ;)) and that article ventilates the opinion that code generators are not useful, to say it in a politically correct way. I agree with...
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My wish-list for the next Visual Studio.NET / .NET api release, part II by FransBouma

I've blogged before about wishes I had for the IDE I use on a daily basis: Visual Studio.NET (currently v2003). Since that blog I've made a new list of new wishes not mentioned in the previous wish-list. I've also included wishes for .NET and the .NET...
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LLBLGen Pro screenshot by FransBouma

Apparantly I changed this blog posting instead of posting a new one, therefor this posting seems changed, it's not. :) Below is a screenshot of the application, LLBLGen Pro , I've been working on for the past 6 months. LLBLGen Pro is the big brother of...
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Create #region macro for C# by FransBouma

Yesterday I was playing around with VS.NET and discovered that I didn't use any macro's at all. So I opened up the macro IDE and looked at the examples. It's pretty easy stuff. So I wrote my first macro. It is a set of macro's actually which create #region...
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Software developers: the book you should have read. by FransBouma

With all the new emerging heros with their books about modern age technology about how to develop good, working software the right way, you'd almost forgot that in the last 15 or so years, a lot of people have already done that on a lot of occasions....
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Harry Potter reloaded by FransBouma

I have a copy now of Harry's new book, 'The Order Of The Phoenix'. It's even thicker than its predecessor :). Thankfully my wife volunteered to read it first, so I can continue reading Hillary's Bo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H John T. Lescroart's latest ;)
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Why OR Mapping does work. by FransBouma

Mads Haugbø Nissen blogs: I've tried to make a similar framework [as Paul Gielens has] but I'm leaning more and more towards discarding OR-mapping as an alternative. Clemens Vasters gave me the final push in a breaktime discussion a month ago during the...
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Move away from stored procedures or not? by FransBouma

Jimmy Nilsson asks on his weblog if I've dropped stored procedures for everything, according to my dynamic query blog . Well, no, I haven't. The reason for this is simple: you should use the technology that fits the job best. If a couple of actions are...
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About computers and marriage by FransBouma

Scoble (among others) writes about a situation which is a given in any marriage where one person is gifted with 'geek-genes' and the other lacks every single one of them. Here in the Netherlands we even had a term for those wives which feel neglected...
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Finally my own skin by FransBouma

... for my blog, that is. I tried to mimic the style we use for our company website. It has some bugs actually. Working on it :) If you still see the old skin, hit cntrl-refresh, or if you do not see a different skin at all, you probably are running a...
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