Browse by Tags

SQL is a functional language?!

I was taken aback by the claim, mentioned by a speaker in an event I attended about two nights ago. The topic was about development in languages and concurrency, which particularly interested me. I don't know if you'll agree with the claim but...

Published 09-06-2008 1:55 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, development tools

Using search engines from an IE6 address bar

After using progressive browsers such as Firefox and Safari in my previous employers, imagine my dismay when I realised we were stuck with IE6. One of the things I missed as I had to step back and bear with old IE6 is the absence of the search bar. We're...

Published 09-03-2008 4:37 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, personal, tips

Design patterns are NOT from hell

I saw this somewhere in my daily reading list (I religiously browse my Google Reader at the start of the day). I thought to myself that the blog author probably had negative experiences with programmers or architect types who place too much emphasis on...

Published 05-02-2008 10:40 AM by cruizer

Filed under: General, design patterns

Smalltalk: "Been here, done that"

The .NET world is eagerly anticipating the release of version 3.5 of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008 later this month . Naturally there is a build-up of technical discussions, events and online material about the features the new release is...

Published 11-07-2007 2:58 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, OOP, development tools, Smalltalk

And so I ate my words

Yeah, I said enums are evil . Now I'm taking them back. I was forced to swallow my pride and use an enum for my current project. This is for representing the privilege level of the user. I guess the simplicity of the enum won me over, since one can...

Published 10-09-2007 6:50 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, C#, development tools

Languages make design patterns necessary

In light of observations made here and there , it is becoming clear to me that language limitations play a big part in making design patterns necessary. Or unnecessary . In other words, language deficiencies make it necessary to introduce complexity into...

Published 08-07-2007 4:18 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, OOP

Surprising

That was a surprising email message I received first thing in the morning yesterday. I was awarded MVP for Visual Developer - Visual C#! Pardon the cliche but I really thought it wouldn't happen -- mainly because of my pro-open source stance . Anyway...

Published 07-03-2007 5:19 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

Thanks, Keith!

The picture says it all...

Published 04-20-2007 5:39 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

The Microsoft developer mindset when it comes to open source

Ayende Rahien and Jeremy Miller brought forth the arguments in their respective blog entries, and I couldn't agree more. In fact I've seen that mindset first hand with my teammates in my previous employer. The first time I discovered test-driven development...

Published 12-11-2006 9:46 AM by cruizer

Filed under: Open Source, General

POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects)

Has this "philosophy" or approach in .NET development caught the attention of many yet? POCO of course is the .NET version of POJO (Plain Old Java Objects), which is the approach of designing Java business objects that do not depend on some container...

Published 09-01-2006 2:27 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, General

Preaching TDD to students

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for students. Maybe my former (programming) students would vehemently disagree with that. But I've always wanted to teach the things I've learned and applied in my craft to students. After all, I've...

Published 08-17-2006 6:59 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, General, TDD

My First Post

hi everyone [:)] i'm moving into this blog, coming from blogspot.com. i actually have the MonoRail Howto blog but i'll be discontinuing it and putting in new content here in my blog at devpinoy.org. i just came from doing a talk at the first PHINUG .NET...

Published 01-29-2006 12:44 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives

SQL is a functional language?!

Using search engines from an IE6 address bar

Design patterns are NOT from hell

Smalltalk: "Been here, done that"

And so I ate my words

Languages make design patterns necessary

Surprising

Thanks, Keith!

The Microsoft developer mindset when it comes to open source

POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects)

Preaching TDD to students

My First Post