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May 2006 - Posts

The truth of specification

posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:27 AM by dodyg
"The less effort you spend on spec, the less precise it will be. The more complete spec you want upfront, the more effort you will sacrifice on Requirements Definition phase. The sad fact is that The Spec WILL be changed. Developers will find conflicting Read More
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Alan Kay on LISP

posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:46 AM by dodyg
"Finally, he pointed out that there have been no significant advances in computer science for several decades. He's got some background in biology, and for years he tried to keep up with the field. Every couple of months he'd go over the new developments Read More
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LISP is love

posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:21 PM by dodyg
"We could do the same with XML. Of course the line above isn't really a list, it's a tree, just like its XML-alternative. Don't let references to lists confuse you, it's just that lists that contain other lists and trees are effectively Read More
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Trailling commas on Enum and Array

posted Monday, May 15, 2006 4:52 AM by dodyg
Craig Andera discovered this nifty C# compiler feature "public enum Foo {   One,   Two,   Three, }"   This will also compile   "string[] s = new string[] {"hello","world",}; " Read More
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Welcome to the Age of Expression

posted Friday, May 12, 2006 5:51 PM by dodyg
"Expression<Func<int, int>> expr = a => a + 3;Console.WriteLine(expr); // prints "a => Add(a, 3)"Func<int, int> func = expr.Compile(); // LCG's an MSIL method from the exprConsole.WriteLine(func(4)); // prints "7"" (Don Box)You Read More
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ADO.Net mis-vision

posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:49 PM by dodyg
The Next Generation Data Access ?So Microsoft gave us the ObjectSpaces/WinFS "vision" (remember those); that went nowhere. Last year we got DLinq "vision" and now this ADO.Net entity framework vision. Yawn. Yet another ORM with XML descriptions and Read More
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RSS - Simple Sharing Extension

posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:31 PM by dodyg
This is just a marker to Microsoft RSS Simple Sharing Extension that I suspect I will be using soon. This specification allows a generic way to do synchronization of data openly on the Internet. Read More
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10 things every C# programmer should know about Ruby

posted Monday, May 08, 2006 1:37 PM by dodyg
This presentation is for Java programmer, but close enough "Methods can be added to classes at any point … even built in classes. "http://onestepback.org/articles/10things/ Read More
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Symbols aren't Strings

posted Monday, May 08, 2006 1:24 PM by dodyg
Symbol is one of those Ruby concept that is hard to grok for C# programmers. It's a name for object (what ?)Read this good explanation about what a symbol is (because Ruby help file is useless on this topic)"You can’t ask for the size of a symbol. You Read More
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Error Codes or Exceptions ?

posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:01 PM by dodyg
Read this  long and good article about Error Code vs Exceptions decade long war."Joel Spolsky had an interesting take on return-codes vs. exceptions and I agree with him: Return-codes vs Exceptions, part 2, part 3, and part 4." Read More
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Add Rollback feature to your NUnit test

posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:02 PM by dodyg
"One of the things that have bothered me the most since I got into the whole "Add database rollback to your unit tests" thing, is how much work it takes to make your test suite use this feature. I actually went and made a new binary of the NUnit Framework Read More
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Social Network Paper

posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:21 AM by dodyg
"A lot of folks have asked me "What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?" I guess i never directly answered that question, even though i've addressed the causes in other talks. Still, i guess it would be helpful to piece some of it Read More
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Comet

posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:41 PM by dodyg
" This time last year, a single word began a revolution in Web design. Coined and published on February 18, 2005, by May, the word “AJAX” was on everyone’s lips. It soon became the talk of the entire industry, and has revolutionized Web design as we Read More
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GData

posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:37 AM by dodyg
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html is interesting and it has a C# library. Read More
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Programmable Robots

posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:49 AM by dodyg
The next generation of Lego Mindstorms will have USB, Bluetooth, Ultrasound, sound, light and touch sensor, servo motors + open sourced firmware.All for the price of an XBOX (not XBOX 360)With open source firmware, we will soon no doubt see a wifi Read More
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Going Robotics

posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:02 PM by dodyg
LEGO Order Confirmation (NA) Dear DODY GUNAWINATA,  Thank you for placing your order with LEGO Shop At Home. This email is to confirm the details of your order. Ship To: DODY GUNAWINATA xxxxxxx xxx xx xxx xx Read More
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LLBLGen Pro v.20 Beta is released

posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:12 PM by dodyg
download the bits here or download it at pippo. Read More
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FTP Editor

posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:28 PM by dodyg
http://www.pspad.com/ is a cool freeware text editor that support FTP editing. Check out these screenshots. Read More
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Welcome To Spell Coder

posted Monday, May 01, 2006 4:05 PM by dodyg
Playing on the cutting edge is fun but you get cut a lot; on a daily basis.I am working with a team that use WinFx (on Indigo and Workflow) + Atlas for a mid size project (18 months long); It has been fun to have the opportunity to deal with these new Read More
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