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This is one of the most pervasive questions asked in my industry from folks who are not professional software developers, but perhaps have an interest in pursuing it as a hobby, or as a career: "So, how do I learn how to write code?" I'll start with my own experience as to how I got into this industry as a professional, will mention how
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I've been struggling over the past couple of years to find a new purpose in keeping this site up and running. Over the past 2-3 years, most of my posts have been random in nature, and few and far between. I started this site back in 2003, so it's been almost 10 years since my first post. Back then I was just getting into the realm of professional
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I normally don't like to participate in the so called "browser wars" and that is not the intention of this post. But, I feel that the title poses a legitimate question: What is going on with modern browsers sucking down memory like tequila shots these days? As a web developer, I have a slew of browsers installed on my machines for testing
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Note; If you don't feel like reading this entire post, at least read this: Start8 from Stardock Corp (30 day free trial, 5 bucks after that, and well worth it IMO): Get your start button back, disable hotspots, and boot directly to the desktop with that utility. Otherwise, read on. This post is not going to be a diatribe either for or against Windows
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Software development has changed so much since I first got into the business over a decade ago, and lately, sometimes I feel like I’m becoming that 50 year old dinosaur who sits in the corner mumbling to himself about “the old days” of programming and how all the new technologies are ruining “proper'” software engineering
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This will be short how to on how to get ISO C ‘99 code to compile in Visual Studio 200x (in this case, Visual Studio 2012), since Microsoft only supports ANSI C ‘89 (and barely at that). Microsoft have made it very clear that they will not support C99 , and instead urges users to move to Visual C++ instead. Ok that’s great…unless
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This post is going to explain how to implement the Singleton Pattern in .Net/C#. In most other programming languages/frameworks, global variables are allowed. In modern day programming this is extremely frowned upon, hence where this design pattern comes in handy: It provides a global object with only one point of reference. Once it is instantiated
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Objective: I am seeking a career in a challenging team oriented atmosphere, and looking to bring innovativeness and creative problem solving abilities as a Software Developer/Application Architect to a fast paced, result driven environment. I have excellent communication skills, and am very dedicated and driven to succeed. I have ten years of experience
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A pet project I’ve been working on (on and off, time permitting) has been in need of some serious refactoring, so I finally sat down to eliminate some redundancy, and work on some design pattern work. A common problem in software design is making sure base class implementation is always called from overrides, but also deferring finer grained details
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Visual Studio 2012 hasn’t been released to the general public yet, but a friend of mine was nice enough to lend me his MSDN copy of both VS and Team Foundation Server (I run Sharepoint 2010 on my intranet, which is a requirement for TFS…the integration is incredible). While you’re at it, do yourself a favor and install the new (and free) decompiler