“An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.” - Robert Brault
As developers we all have standards, even if they aren’t that well defined. Of course I’m talking about technology standards but feel free to insert your social awareness and/or hygiene standard joke here. Standards can range from the usual coding standards to the names you give your servers (e.g Lord of the Rings Characters) and everything in-between.
[Read More]Well, it’s that time of year in the SaturdayMP basement… The tax deadline for filing 2009 personal taxes in Canada is April 30.
We’re slowly gathering dusty papers to send to our accountants, the fine folks at Every Bean Counts (great name!)
Before SaturdayMP and the olden days of High C consulting, we did our own taxes using personal tax software and NETFILEd the paperwork then headed to the bank. If we were prepared, we’d have the correct crumbled up piece of paper with the (correct) amount we owed scribbled on it. There, the teller would stamp it several times, emphatically, then withdraw the money from our accounts in no time.
[Read More]The basement-based fun never ends…
The main problem I encountered was creating a function to accept any function pointer along with an unknown number of arguments. I got around this problem using the ThreadStart and delegate() features in C# (.NET 3.5). First off create your method to take any method as so:
public static Thread StartMethodInNewThread(ThreadStart methodToStart)
{
// Do common some stuff before starting the thread, such as logging.
// Start the task in a new thread
Thread t = new Thread(methodToStart);
t.Start();
// Do some stuff after starting the thread, such as more logging.
// If the caller cares you can return the thread.
return t;
}
Now anywhere in your code where you need to start a new method in a thread write the following:
[Read More]Next time your entering data for a software demo try spicing it up and sneak some your famous real or fictional addresses. Often you can’t use the fictional state/province but the street addresses are easy to sneak into a demo, or even better, into your product documentation. Some ideas to get you thinking:
#101 1984 Miniluv Building London, Oceania
1428 Elm Street Madstop, New England United States
211b Baker Street London, England
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