Look at the picture below. These are the Team System tests results I run today. Why the heck is more than half of the window empty (huge red rounded […]
Spell checker for developers is a good thing
Here is an output from Intel’s Matrix Storage Console when repairing a RAID array: Yep, it says Verifing instead of Verifying. This is a common harmless error that […]
Command prompt utilities should have a readable help message
Today I had to display ILMerge‘s help information (btw, ILMerge does merge assemblies in a single assembly and it is a must have free utility produced by [MS] […]
e-banking at its best
I saw this post over at David's blog and all that I have to say is that … I am not surprised. e-banking applications aren't good over here […]
C++ cryptics
I saw today this line of code in a newsgroup and couldn’t resist to compare it to the same code written in C#. array<System::Data::DataRow^>^ rows = myTable->Select("…"); Now, […]
Anonymous method trivia
Can you guess how many times will this console application output the current date? class Program { private static Tubo tubo = new Tubo(); static void Main(string[] args) […]
Visual Studio Team System Testing tools and multithreading
If you’ve been doing testing with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) you have probably noticed that each test might be run in different thread. And the same is […]
Think twice before giving your personal data to either Yahoo or MSN
According to today news MSN and Yahoo agreed to help Chinese government in censorship and fight versus "politically sensitive" bloggers. The help consists in giving all of blogger's private […]
Make XtraVerticalGrid fast as a bullet
Recently I’ve discovered that XtraVerticalGrid, a nice vertical grid from [DevEx], has some serious problems with speed when doing batch updates. Usually you should enclose batch updates within […]
LLBLGen Pro got even better
Frans released a new major version of his [LGP] ORM. Basically, a top notch ORM product got even better. Make sure you check the what's new list – and if you […]