When you have multiple clients working on the same data – concurrency rears it’s ugly head. How to handle two users loading the same data – and both of them editing it and trying to save it back to the DB. There is no way to keep everyone happy when this happens – either Last-In [...]
I went ahead and got the Eric IDE to start a bit of a project with some UI involved. I found a nice tutorial for a parser. Of course, it would be too easy to install it on Windows – so, I did it all on my netbook… first things first. Don’t do that for [...]
When in Rome… After installing Linux – it was kinda anti-climatic. Everything was installed without me doing anything – and using the browser and the small utilities quickly was… meh. So, new project – learn a programming language that would run on Linux. Enter a lot of confusion. I had no idea what-so-ever where to [...]
I had to try… Positive impression so far. Just made a simple console application. Everything is lightning fast – even if I’m sitting on a 0.99 GHz ATOM CPU, 1 GB Ram and a very small hard-drive – I was amazed that it would even start – but this speed? I wouldn’t have thought it [...]
I’ve been threatening to do this for some time – but now, I finally took the plunge. I have a little net-book that’s a perfect candidate for experiments. I started this afternoon and now a few hours (took me 6 hours before I was fully online), I’m reporting to you live from my new Linux [...]
The WPF DataGrid is a monster of a control (just like the DataGridView in Windows Forms is), but some things drive me crazy. They baked a lot of functionality into this control – and then they skipped easy functionality because… well, who knows. Below, I’ll present a few of the ones, I’ve dealt with: CellAlignment [...]
As it might shine through in my previous posts – I have a pragmatic view on TDD. I understand why tests are important – I do tests, but I don’t test everything – maybe I approach 15% test-coverage. I chose to make ERP-systems my speciality – and I land at lousy 15% coverage? Many would [...]
I’m currently making a prototype where I have to show how the final application will look. That means, I have to build basically everything, I would normally build for the ‘real’ application (data, styling and command-logic). This is not my preferred way of working – normally I would build it incrementally – one functionality at [...]
Come 1st of August, I start a new job at NotaPlan ApS as a C#/WPF developer. I will be joining a few different projects in a tight team of 4 – and overall, I hope I can add some experience in business-logic – and of course my NHibernate and WPF skills will be put to [...]
I lurk a lot on StackOverflow – it sometimes strikes me how hard people try to make their problems. Instead of using a simple solution, they will over-engineer it until it becomes impossible to do what they’re trying to accomplish. If you are trying to bind to the parent control via templatebinding and do a [...]