Also see: The influence of style upon methodology… I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back. It was a fun conversation about a bit of.NET history as well as where we are going. Landing Page Download show I’d love the hear what you [...]
March 26, 2008
AppDomains (“application domains”)
Also see: Applied Metamodelling: A Foundation for Language Driven Development An AppDomain is a light-weight process. Well, if you actually measure the costs associated with an AppDomain – especially the first one you create, which has some additional costs that are amortized over all subsequent ones – then “light-weight” deserves some explanation: A Win32 [...]
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Life Calculus
Also see: Java Frameworks State of the (dis)Union. Yesterday my coworkers redecorated my office. Pictures in this blog entry are photos of their work. Strangely enough, I found myself quite appreciative of their act of vandalism. Today is my 40th birthday. Like most other days, I started by walking the dog and making a To-Do [...]
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March 25, 2008
Prototypes and Java Config with Spring
Spring is a deep framework providing numerous approaches and techniques for Java developers. This post by Solomon Duskis covers the topic of Java config and prototypes in the framework. Also see: Infrequent blogging Also see: Note to self: Blog about using Service Broker Also see: The 2 Technology Magazines You Should Read http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/tsscom/blogs/~3/248013264/thread.tss
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Turning bitboards from potential moves into legal moves, pawn moves, and conditional rules.
Also see: UI design The BitBoards so far have been astoundingly accurate at producing moves. But even after the moves have been produced they have to be fully validated. Take for instance, a bishop in the middle of the board. The number of potential moves for the bishop is 13 or so, but the number [...]
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We Live in an “Open Book” World, the Lie of Information Overload
Also see: Introducing Microsoft Tagspace In school, there were two kinds of tests. The regular kind where you learned and memorized all you could and then did your best on the test. The 2nd kind was the Open Book Test. Where you could use your notes and text books to figure out the answer to [...]
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From C# to Java: Part 3
Also see: Note to self: Blog about using Service Broker Until about 2002 I had a broad disdain for most IDEs. I just felt they were too pushy. They were always trying to take control over my build system or the layout of my source tree. If I’m going to give those things up, I [...]
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Finally, the Killer App
Also see: YouTube Tries to Get Legal Also see: Brad Abrams’ pixel8 Interview Podcast posted Also see: This Guy Proves Anyone with a Keyboard can be Stupid If you’ve yet to be sold on the Internet, grab a seat and your favorite pointing device. My good man Ryan sent me a link to what is [...]
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Win friends and influence your team
Do you know where your data is? If you’ve been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it’s in a database. It would seem silly to put data, especially frequently changing data, into code. How about those business rules? Business rule engines haven’t been around as long as databases, [...]
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VPC 2007 Dual Monitor support
Also see: Chicago geek dinner 11/22 I have been trying to find a way to allow you to run Virtual PC 2007 with multiple monitors. Natively VPC 2007 doesnt support more than 1 monitor, however you can “trick” it by using various techniques that expand the desktop area into a larger virtual desktop. I tried using the [...]
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