January 2007 - Posts

working around a project with minimal unit tests
Published 01-30-2007 9:40 PM | jokiz
coming from a project with number of unit tests in it (hundreds i believe), it's hard to work around our current project without it. we're near the release of the project and we still have 31 unit and integration test cases for the .NET client application...
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Refresh issue of AnkhSVN
Published 01-30-2007 9:24 PM | jokiz
There is a refresh issue on the version 1 release of AnkhSVN addin for visual studio last year (i thought it was already the RTM version 1.0 release, it was just RC4). if you are a tortoisesvn committer, you'll notice that the ankh refresh command at...
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bogus sms
Published 01-28-2007 9:59 AM | jokiz
i received a bogus sms for the first time this afternoon asking for a 5 peso load indicating that it was a new number without stating who it was. I tried to call the said number but i received a "network busy." i recalled an issue before where some syndicates...
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trapped in try-catch all code structure
Published 01-23-2007 6:13 AM | jokiz
i was trying to incorporate my Excel workbook with our client application yesterday when i was caught with the try-catch all construct that my teammate is fond of. basically it's just a structure to most of his methods starting with a try block and ending...
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Constructor-intensive classes
Published 01-23-2007 6:05 AM | jokiz
I find it ironic to see a number of processing being done just in the constructor of a class. You're just supposed to create an instance of it and initialize some of its members, how come it already does a number of things. Isn't this a code smell?
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Maximum Daily Withdrawal Limit for BPI
Published 01-18-2007 11:47 AM | jokiz
I paid my friend last weekend so i withdrew P20,000 from my BPI ATM which I later found out to be the maximum daily withdrawal limit. That was around 11pm. I was surprised the next day that i couldn't withdraw any cash so I inquired through their hotline...
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Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
Published 01-18-2007 11:27 AM | jokiz
There are times when you fiddle with an installer and when you attempt to unintall it, you can't since you are encountering some fatal errors. I once found a solution to this using msiexec command line but i found a utility from microsoft today which...
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Nokia Text Message Editor now has menu shortcuts
Published 01-15-2007 5:24 PM | jokiz
I have just updated my PCSuite to their lates version (6.82.22.0) and i'm glad that they have now included menu access keys for keyboard power users like me for sending message, replying, forwarding, etc. Now i can use the said software again without...
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One reason why Gtalk is better than YM
Published 01-15-2007 4:34 PM | jokiz
As of the moment, yahoo messenger is my primary Instant Messenger, the problem with it is when i wanted to search through my IM logs/history. Since I am using a different pc at home and at work, there are times that the said information is found on the...
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VBA Programming update
Published 01-10-2007 5:04 PM | jokiz
I have started coding the vba project for weeks now and it has been stressful, :(. I am using a somewhat tdd style of programming with vba with a module to run all the tests for each of my class modules. I have always encountered an error during debugging...
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FluentInterface
Published 01-09-2007 9:46 AM | jokiz
So that's what they call it, FluentInterface . I've noticed this when i first encountered query construction in NHibernate in constructing a query using a criteria: IList cats = sess.CreateCriteria(typeof(Cat)) .CreateAlias("Kittens", "kt") .CreateAlias...
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Cannot empty clipboard from excel
Published 01-08-2007 4:28 PM | jokiz
I experience the cannot empty clipboard error message today again which i encountered last year: I did a search and found this .
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single letter variable names
Published 01-08-2007 11:37 AM | jokiz
If j(i) < 1 Then m = m + j(i - 1) Else m = m + j(i - 1) - 1 Single letter variables are good for iterators, but if integer variables will involve coditions such as the statement above, better use a more descriptive variable or refactor the said line...
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MyGlobe rebates
Published 01-04-2007 3:48 PM | jokiz
I don't know the criteria of Globe's rewards program but this is the second time that i will be rewarded through their rebates program. My plan is @ 800 monthly and they are currently giving me P20,000 worth of rebates deductible to my monthly bill for...
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vshost files in bin folder
Published 01-04-2007 10:02 AM | jokiz
i was surprised to see two new files in the bin folder of our windows application project (<application name>.vshost.exe and <application name>.vshost.config files). post from here says that it is an optimization for visual studio debugging...
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