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SQL is a functional language?!

cruizer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Using search engines from an IE6 address bar

cruizer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Learning Ruby from C#

cruizer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:00 GMT

Just in case you haven't seen this yet: http://www.codethinked.com/category/IronRuby-via-C-Series.aspx I'm sure it's a handy tutorial for learning Ruby (using IronRuby for .NET) the language if you've already got C#/.NET background. I...(read more)

IronRuby binaries out now

cruizer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:19:00 GMT

Of course it's still in Alpha, but get 'em here ! Took it out for a quick spin and it seems still rough around the edges, but hey...no need to build it yourself anymore if you want to try it now....(read more)

Continuous Integration "Hang-ups"

cruizer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:44:00 GMT

I really like continuous integration . Having come from a company that didn't practice it at all (this was a time I used to regularly work 12 to 16 hours a day), I was so happy when I got into a company that actually practiced it. I found it to be...(read more)

JP Hamilton on testing WinForms

cruizer — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:46:00 GMT

JP Hamilton has posted a brief blog post on how he unit tests WinForms . Looks nifty, especially if you use a pattern like Model-View-Presenter for your forms. His rationale is that if you keep on testing only the presenter and mocking out the view in...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Unit Testing: slides and code

cruizer — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:00 GMT

It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to...(read more)

Speaking about Silverlight 2 and Unit Testing

cruizer — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:50:00 GMT

I will be speaking tomorrow at the Heroes Community Launch 2008 here in Singapore with my favourite (boring?!) topic...Unit Testing! Only this time it's about the testing framework that comes with Silverlight 2's beta release. Kinda excited and...(read more)

Design patterns are NOT from hell

cruizer — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Lessons learned in optimising Windows forms apps

cruizer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:43:00 GMT

Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've...(read more)

You're probably not getting real exercise at all...

cruizer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:36:00 GMT

...when your arm hurts because you've started playing Wii Sports with your Nintendo Wii Yesterday was a Saturday so it's no work day. I spent half the day playing baseball and tennis with my kids...Wii Sports style. And when I woke up this morning...(read more)

My first impressions of Visual Studio 2008

cruizer — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:59:00 GMT

After a long wait, I've finally completed the ISO download of Visual Studio 2008 from MSDN . After a slightly shorter wait upon launching the setup.exe, I was notified that I was short of disk space (it requires a minimum of 4 GB!). So I had to do...(read more)

Microsoft's Updated "Guidelines for Test-Driven Development"

cruizer — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:28:00 GMT

The previous incarnation of that Microsoft article was heavily panned by critics and in a rare move, Microsoft actually pulled it out of its developer web site. I didn't realise it but Microsoft actually replaced it with one written by Jeffrey Palermo...(read more)

Smalltalk: "Been here, done that"

cruizer — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

InvalidOperationException when accessing a web service

cruizer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:15:00 GMT

We encountered a strange thing in our current project: there are times our client will bomb out with a web exception when a web service call is cancelled. We found it strange because we enclosed our web service call within a try-catch block, specifically...(read more)