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When should ports go native?
Friday, December 02, 2005 1:35 PM

Our product, Secret Server , uses the DotLucene API for searching of items ("secrets") in the application. DotLucene is an impressive API which creates index files on disk based on the data you feed to it. It then allows for some very powerful text searches to find data such as "amazon.com~" which will find all secrets containing various spellings of amazon.com... Read More...

by thycotic | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Java, .NET, Software Development

David Patton presents Agile .NET to an XP audience
Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:26 PM

David Patton gave a presentation at the Washington DC XP User Group on Monday night. It was different to the typical XP/TDD presentation due to the audience (who needed no introduction to TDD!) and also David's experiences. It was interesting to hear the audience's surprise at the maturity of the tools for Agile development on the Microsoft platform and also... Read More...

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Filed under: Java, Extreme Programming, .NET, .NET User Groups, Test Driven Development

C# - NAMED LOOPS ... I miss them.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:56 AM

Named loops give the ability to extend flow control with markers. Cynics would argue they are glorified goto s but in that case, they probably don't like continue anyway! Here is a simple contrived example: 1 namespace NamedLoopExample 2 { 3 public class NamedLoops 4 { 5 public void Example() 6 { 7 Product[] products = new Product[] { new Product() }; 8 Sku[... Read More...

by thycotic | 3 comment(s)

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Xml documentation comments are like hairspray!
Saturday, February 14, 2004 8:58 AM

The Refactoring folks talk about CodeSmell and CodeDeodorant . The concept is that a code smell is when there is a feeling that something *could* be wrong with a piece of code. CodeDeodorant is when an attempt is made to cover up the smell by adding whitespace (for “clarity”) or detailed comments to explain the code. These are usually signs that the... Read More...

by thycotic | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Java, Extreme Programming, .NET, Test Driven Development

Sun's JVM gets *seamless* NTLM support in soon to be released 1.4.2_02!
Friday, August 29, 2003 5:29 PM

Microsoft has dropped support for the Microsoft VM and this leaves applets in an uncertain position. Sure, you can just install Sun's JVM but it won't work on your Microsoft IIS-based intranet if you are running NTLM. I have seen this problem at several clients where “single sign on” is essential and NTLM is the mechanism in use. Here is the bug fix report on... Read More...

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