Since most of my professional career has been .NET (VB and C#), typed collections have been something that I implement through one general collection or another (some of my favorites include ArrayList and CollectionBase). Now that we’ve switched over to .NET 2.0, I’ve been introduced to the wonderful world of C# generics and the type [...]
Third party controls are a wonderful thing. When utilized properly, they can cut development times dramatically and provide some pretty nice functionality. They are not without their drawbacks. Unfortunately, I’ve run into two of those drawbacks this week.
The first came with the Infragistics controls we use for our web applications. They just released a new [...]
When modifying backup scripts. Last week (Friday night, I believe), I uninstalled DotProject from my server, as I was not using it and was in need of a bug tracker, not a project manager. My backup script was backing up the DotProject SQL and files along with my normal backups. So I [...]
Read: Exercise caution…
As I sit here, uploading the database updates for my side project, I received an email from a fellow Allegheny computer science grad. Apparently, the head of the CS department, Dr. Cupper, is in the hospital, and will be for an extended period. Of course, as with most emails of this nature, there is very [...]
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One thing I’m convinced about: keeping up with technology always pays off for a company in the long run. The application that I maintained at C1 was in VB6 (and probably still is). Most of what I maintained at Commersel was ASP/VBScript
Here, well, it’s a completely different story. When I started, the application was built [...]
Read: Visual Studio 2005
