Jun 04

I program with different languages and for a while now I have wanted to make the K&R variant coding style my default in Visual Studio.

So what do I mean by the K&R variant coding style, this coding style was named after co authors of the book The C Programming Language (thank you Wikipedia!) Kernighan and Ritchie. The variant I like is based on Java – rather than taking up a new line I like the opening brace on the first line of the statement block.
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Apr 18

Just downloaded the official release of Visual Studio 2010 and nearly fell of my chair, when I saw that the new download manager is a Java Applet. Is Microsoft going soft? Or are we starting to see vendors use the best technology for the job, rather than what company developed the technology. I would of loved to be a fly on the wall in the meeting when it was suggested! Good on Microsoft.

MSDN Downloads Java Applet landing page

MSDN Downloads Java Applet - landing page

MSDN Downloads Java - Applet download Applet

MSDN Downloads Java - Applet download

MSDN Downloads Java - Applet UI

MSDN Downloads Java - Applet UI

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Nov 13

Stumbled across a very strange “issue” with iGoogle. Very easy to reproduce:

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Nov 11

In VB.NET you have always been able to use optional parameters:

Sub Foo(ByVal p1 As String, Optional ByVal p2 As String = "default value")
End Sub

'Call to Foo with 1 of the 2 parameters is allowed
Foo("p1 value")

Now in C# 4.0 we get the same support:

void Foo(string p1, string p2 = "default value")
{
}

//Call to Foo with 1 of the 2 parameters is allowed
Foo("p1 value");

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Nov 09

But I for one, think this is too little too late. Is this enough to make us migrate of off Subversion, NUnit or CruiseControl.NET?  No but it might be able to fill a very small gap left by open source tools.  But I will not be switching from any open source frameworks for Team Foundation Server 2010.  We needed this about 5 years ago, why the U-Turn Microsoft? Probably because of the lack of Team System take up? Come on who do you know that uses MSUnit or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)?

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2009/10/20/tfs-2010-server-licensing-it-s-included-in-msdn-subscriptions.aspx

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