Managed and Unmanaged, Metaphorically(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 6 months ago

"Last night I was asked what the difference was between managed and unmanaged code by a non-coder. I came up with a metaphor which works and our CEO asked me to post it." read more...

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The Future of Programming Languages(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be. read more...

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Tidying Up Old Blog Entries (Cleaning up MS Office HTML tags)(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone back and fixed them. Along the way I built a small utility for doing this and here it is read more...

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Start menu context annoyances(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Dave discusses some options when it comes to a context menu add-on used for finding out what files have a lock on them by team members, etc. read more...

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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't... read more...

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More F# At Code Camp Hartford(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

Rick Minerich writes about CodeCamp in Hartford and his recent F# presentation with slides and code examples read more...

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Generic Fiddling(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

I spent an hour yesterday playing with generics to get my chops up a little better. After reading Krzystof Cwalina's post on the layout of the generic collections, I came up with this little gem: read more...

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Debugging Code in the GAC - the best thing since sliced bread(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 10 months ago

"[...] I read a lot and one thing that caught my eye was that any assembly that is to be used as an add-in needs to be signed and installed in the GAC. This is troublesome as I always assumed that debugging code built this way was going to be, well, a pain in the GAC." Steve Hawley from Atalasoft gives a great little tutorial on this would-be problem. read more...

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Menu item usability vs. learnability(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 10 months ago

Lou Franco gives his take on application UI, inclusion/exclusion of menu items, etc. "A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would." read more...

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Beauty is only Skin-Deep: Skinning your WinForms Application(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years ago

"The first impression is everything, right? So this post is all about how to skin your application. While I can't turn you into Monet, I can show you what a paint brush looks like." read more...

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Get Motivated - Motivational Poster Generator + Source(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years ago

"I chose to focus on the typography and the color selection for the slogan. All of this is put together through one remote invoke to the aspx application on the server. On the server, there is a method called ReworkPage that takes an URL to an image, a slogan, and subtext. This method does all the work of building the image." read more...

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Out, Out, Damn Ref(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years, 1 month ago

The difference between the out and ref keywords in C# .. and other questions this brings up. read more...

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Creating Image Sliders with AJAX - Part II(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years, 1 month ago

Bringing desktop-like image manipulation to the web using AJAX, sample code and everything included in post. read more...

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Intraeducation(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years, 1 month ago

The author provides a very insightful view on spreading knowledge and retaining the desire to learn new things to keep a team efficient. read more...

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Improving OCR Accuracy(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years, 1 month ago

The author points out a good way to handle thresholding scans in order to improve OCR accuracy, as well as some other tips to get the best result. read more...

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Code Camp 9 - Wear Something Bright and Keep Low(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 4 years, 1 month ago

A nice summary of a developer's experience at Code Camp 9 in Waltham, MA. read more...

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