Posts categorized 'Waxing Dev'

RIGHT NOW. Why are there no awesome javascript-y forums? I like the Channel9 ones, but they are buggy (sorry, usually I love M$ junk). This is a huge market. Get on with your bad self, independent developer! Honestly, there is never a reason for a full page load when navigating an individual forum. You...

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Sometimes, when you're a lone developer on a project you skip some of the important facets of developing as a group. Like iteration planning, bug tracking, and source control. Well, I'm here to tell you that having source control is the most important part of your application (that's not written by you...

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I have an iPhone, I like the band Cake, I drink octane drinks, the whole world spins and I'm hunched over a 17" screen for 12 hours straight. I'm a Developer. I like math, I have a wall sized white board, I crack my knuckles, I don't do suits I'm a Developer. I'm the internet's engine, I am a Data...

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Arthur Dent was a Visual Basic spaghetti coder. Now, I have nothing against Visual Basic programmers, don't get me wrong. There are some people that find what they like and stick with it. Arthur Dent was that guy and he did it for the wrong reasons. no matter what new adventure Ford Prefect and Zaphod...

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So, you've integrated NHibernate as your ORM , you've created your objects and your mapping files, sooo... what next? The exciting part, that's what. I mean, I KNEW what an ORM was, what I didn't know is that my SQL would be taken care of for me, all LINQ-style in my code. What I didn't know was how...

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The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the difficulty I had with getting large assignments and breaking them down in little pieces. Usually, in the beginning, I'd be at full steam, really motivated...

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You remember Nick Burns , no? Who didn't relate to that guy, users can be annoying. I've recently noticed myself snapping at more and more people, though. Last week I found my voice getting testy when I was explaining to someone how to install SQL Server 2005 on their home machine. Just today I caught...

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*sigh* one thing I didn't anticipate about this project is just how much fun designing it would be. From schema choices, to naming conventions, to frameworks, to ORM, to what methods to include in my base business object. It really is a freaking blast, and also very daunting. The amount of research I...

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When I was coming up as a young VBA pup I was told again and again “all good programmers document their code,” and “constant documentation a good developer makes” and “blah, blah, blah document” and I hated it. I hated documenting, I hated figuring out something fun...

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