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Dreaming in Code : Why writing software is hard?

posted Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:58 PM by dodyg
"In the book this is what I call, in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way, Rosenberg's Law. I got to this point in my writing where I realized that everybody else in the software world has a law -- there's laws galore! -- and surely, if I'm going to contribute Read More
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Sorry Mr. Gates

posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:58 AM by dodyg
"The entire discussion is somewhat dishonest. The term "certification," for example, conjures up the image of fresh faced young people lining up to be given their mantles of office while parents in the audience blink back tears of pride and a choir softly Read More
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Look Ahead

posted Monday, November 27, 2006 5:07 AM by dodyg
These are a few of items I am thinking for 2007Migrating to C# 3.0. There are so much cool stuff in the language that it makes sense to migrate to it as soon as possible.Solve the CMS suckiness problem once and for all.Stabilizing SilverKey Ukraine.Start Read More
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RSSBus

posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:44 PM by dodyg
" RSSBus is a Really Simple Service Bus that uses the RSS protocol as the main interchange mechanism. RSS is an extensible protocol used to exchange Feeds of Items. Normally these are news items or blog postings, but they don't have to Read More
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No Silver Bullet

posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:13 AM by dodyg
"Ada and other high-level language advances. One of the most touted recent developments is Ada, a general-purpose high-level language of the 1980's. Ada not only reflects evolutionary improvements in language concepts, but indeed embodies features to Read More
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One down, three to go

posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:23 PM by dodyg
SilverKey just hired a kick ass DirectX/3D developer to join our development team. A 3D development in a web development company? Well yeah, off course it makes sense. Graphic programming is one of the most pain in the ass programming in regards of debugging, Read More
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NDOC 2 Alpha is faster Sandcastle

posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:21 PM by dodyg
I have done some quicky comparison between NDoc 2 alpha and Sandcastle alpha in generating a HtmlHelp 1.x and I found the results to be staggering. NDoc generates the whole files in under 1 minute. It took Sandcastle 4 minutes to complete the job. On Read More
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Larry Wall's Perl State of the onion 10

posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:58 PM by dodyg
Check out the yearly Perl State of the Onion.  "Perl has always been about letting you care about the things you want to care about, while not caring about the things you don't want to care about, or that maybe you're not quite ready to care Read More
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My professor is kicking ass

posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:45 PM by dodyg
Check out this interview with the  professor that is heading the team in building Ruby .Net compiler from Queensland University of Technology (my almamater).If you are interested in taking post graduate degrees or research in compilers, do it at Read More
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Why you all should learn LISP

posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:04 PM by dodyg
The really interesting thing I want you to notice, here, is that as soon as you think of map and reduce as functions that everybody can use, and they use them, you only have to get one supergenious to write the hard code to run map and reduce on a global Read More
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Open Source Software Lab from Microsoft

posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:49 PM by dodyg
http://port25.technet.com/default.aspx Read More
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Rendering control to string

posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:46 PM by dodyg
These are useful codes to render your asp.net control output into string.http://weblogs.asp.net/guys/archive/2004/05/30/144539.aspx Read More
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Treemap visualization

posted Monday, July 03, 2006 10:26 PM by dodyg
This is called tree map, a pretty recent method to visualize deep and large trees. Read the original paper and ideas about this visualization techniques. Read More
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Migrating from Web Site Model to Web Project Model in VS 2005

posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:14 PM by dodyg
http://webproject.scottgu.com/VisualBasic/Migration2/Migration2.aspx Read More
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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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