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 "rage" review argues that the book is .NET-centric...

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 return 1 as you should expect. But consider what...

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 amazes that onle one person out of the last twenty...

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 flaky until I upgraded my RAM to 1GB. As Girish...

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. The Run command executes the Tools.Run command...