October 2007 Entries
After almost three years with the .coop registry, I'm moving on. It's a bit of a wrench to leave such a great team but it is also time to move on. I'll start as a developer for Co-operative Web in early January leaving me December to complete the first draft of the current book. Technorati Tags: Co-operative Web
Well, tech books anyway. Charles Petzold has written an excellent post on the state (and the point) of being a technical book author in response to Jeff Atwood's own post on how he found writing his first book now that it has found its way to the shops.
And Charles has it pretty much spot on vis a vis the experience and the rewards of producing a 700+ page book. And the comments to the post are pretty much in two camps : "I chose to write a blog" and "why don't you self-publish?" Ironically, Charles is probably one of the few...
Before the fall of Wrox back in 2002, an erstwhile attempt was made to produce monthly books on new cutting edge topics. Java Server Faces, Hailstorm, XQuery and more were all covered in hastily put together 200 page tomes. It being 2002 though, the number of topics you could write a book on were limited and the EA series became the Handbook series before Wrox fell into liquidation.
With a new owner, it looks like Wrox v2 are taking another crack at the early adopter series but in a more sensible form. From Jim Minatel,
Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and...
It's taken a few years but Microsoft has announced that it will make the source code for the majority of its .NET framework libraries available for download with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 later this year.
Initially the release will include the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows). Source code for more libraries such as WCF, Workflow, and LINQ will be added in later releases. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License...
Finally a multi-monitor utility that works for me. And it's written in .NET and works on Vista x64 just fine. DisplayFusion sits in your system tray and does two things very well. It allows me to switch windows between screens and resize them as well at the touch of a windows shortcut (Win-Right Arrow for me) and it manages desktop wallpaper across unevenly sized monitors. I can even load a photo in from Flickr if I so choose.
This little app has only been around since August, but it's definitely worth some love if you work across many monitors.
Technorati Tags: DisplayFusion, Multiple Monitors,...
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Jeremy Miller asked how do you know if your TDD approach is working earlier today. And then I wrote the following test which covers a particular bug \ feature of xsd.exe I found a while ago. It's incomplete, but then I started worrying, is this approach right? I'm testing one method which takes a schema and returns a CodeNamespace which has been altered. I need to make sure the result addresses the bug that was discovered which this test seems to do. But is it a unit test? Shouldn't it have fewer asserts as I've read in the past? Shouldn't I...