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Took part in an interesting but highly pedantic discussion about the relative speeds of 4 different ways to remove a trailing comma from a string. It actually started out discussing purely the performance aspect, then drifted into elegance. Of course I came up with the least most efficacious option, but, IMHO the most elegant!! :-D

Anyways, here were the different ways that the group arrived at:

Followed up more on unit testing again today by turning to my trusted tome "Code Complete" [ Code Complete ] to read what it had to say on the topic of unit testing. Here are some interesting snippets taken from Chapter 25 (p.589):

I actually started putting pen-to-paper tonight for a new Regular Expression article that I've been meaning to write for some time.  The goals of the article are to provide an explanation of each of the following items:

Cool news today, it seems like I'll get to be dev lead on a "jukebox" product for a customer that involves providing a touchscreen interface to select music stored in MP3 format. I'll use Duncan's great new article [ Coding4Fun ] as the basis of my learning. Thanks Duncan! :0)

Some of us started writing code recently, most of us started a while ago, and some of us started before that.

"Standards are bullshit. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant"
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All of the discussions on the lists ( ASPAdvice.com ) about NUnit lately finally aroused my interest so I decided to read about it; seems pretty cool.  The article that I read was quite simple and well illustrated ( NUnit tutorial ).  I think that I'll do some roadtests with it on my current project!

Spent a stack of time trying to teach myself component building tonight.  I've started building a component that is derived from DataGrid and binds some additional properties.