Bad Designs
If you look for Usability in the web it looks like that Usability is only a quality of software, then you find links to sites related with Web Usability, Win Usability, and so on.
But usability is not only our problem, all people making something in order to interact with humans must be aware of Usability.
There is a site showing bad designs in others areas http://www.baddesigns.com/examples.html Enjoy :)
XML Serialization vs Custom XML Serialization
Every project that I'm starting i have the same question when i have to decide the XML serialization for some object. Should I use XML Serialization or Custom Serialization ?
The first projects that i developed i defined a IMyXmlSerializable with 2 methods FromXml and ToXml. After I was very happy with my primary definition exploring the framework help i found the .NET XML Serialization. I felt like a stupid and said "I reinvent the wheel".
However .NET XML Serialization is not the paradise, if your object definition is complex and big, if you wanna serialize some private member, if you wanna serialize complex relationships between objects saving size and time, in this cases I still prefer Custom Serialization.
Interesting info from SharpDevelop( Dissecting a C# Application) :
"The version that used serialization took up 90 MB hard disk space and over 15 minutes...."
"... the routine that was without serialization takes only around 20 MB and builds the database in 1 minute on the same machine."
Right now I feel better :-)
My friends and me at PDC
I went to the PDC 2003 with Whidbey in my mind, after the first Key Note i change my mind quickly, I felt in love with AVALON !!!
I was tracking all AVALON, and AERO conferences, when i returned to my country I installed Longhorn in my home machine (only 512 MB RAM but it's working !!)
XAML is really cool for the future but if you wanna start working today with XAML and you don't have Longhorn,
XAMLON, it's a great idea ( http://66.27.62.90/index.html )
Ah, here my friends and me on Universal :-)
Introducing my self
Hi, this is my first post :-) , then I would like to introduce my self. I was born in Uruguay a little country between Argentina and Brazil
I have a little son he is 9 months old, then right now I don’t have a lot of time to have dreams J
As all uruguayans I like soccer, additionally I like programming!!!
I was working on VSIP for about 3 years, right now I´m gotta test VSIPExtras.
I’m a member of DeKlarit Team ( www.deklarit.com ) . Well that’s my brief introduction…