Welcome to RightHand's community place Sign in | | Help

avgust 2007 - Posts

30. avgust 2007 20:28

Dock.Fill should be used more often

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 rectangle) ? Instead, the grid could perfectly fill the empty space and thus reducing the stress on my
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under:
29. avgust 2007 21:56

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 happens in an application. While it is a harmless one it makes you feel uncomfortable
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
29. avgust 2007 20:14

Command prompt utilities should have a readable help message

Today I had to display I LMerge 's help information (btw, ILMerge does merge assemblies in a single assembly and it is a must have free utility produced by Microsoft Research labs). This is the output I've got: C:\Progs\Vodovodi\Vodovodi.Utilities\AddPrefix\bin\Release
Posted by Miha Markic | 4 Comments
Filed under:
29. avgust 2007 5:45

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 in Slovenia. But this one from David's post tops the list by far. Here is the screenshot from his
Posted by Miha Markic | 6 Comments
29. avgust 2007 2:09

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, compare the managed C++ code above to the C#
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under:
28. avgust 2007 14:46

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) { One(); tubo.RaiseTubek(); Console.WriteLine( " Finished " ); Console.ReadLine();
Posted by Miha Markic | 5 Comments
Filed under:
28. avgust 2007 10:43

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 valid for set up and clean up methods. This feature might be a good one generally but not if
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under:
25. avgust 2007 15:05

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 data to the government on its request. Just like
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
24. avgust 2007 14:35

Make XtraVerticalGrid fast as a bullet

Recently I've discovered that XtraVerticalGrid , a nice vertical grid from Developer Express , has some serious problems with speed when doing batch updates. Usually you should enclose batch updates within BeginUpdate/EndUpdate method calls. This usually
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under: , ,
23. avgust 2007 15:06

LLBLGen Pro got even better

Frans released a new major version of his LLBLGen Pro ORM. Basically, a top notch ORM product got even better. Make sure you check the what's new list - and if you are looking for an (better) ORM, don't hesitate to give it a try, you won't
Posted by Miha Markic | 3 Comments
Filed under: , ,
23. avgust 2007 10:39

Windows Home Server as a backup server

In case you don't know: Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS) has gone RTM a while ago . The problem is that you can't find one in the store yet (unless you are located in New Zealand ) , nor it appears in MSDN due to some odd decision. For now the only
Posted by Miha Markic | 1 Comments
Filed under:
14. avgust 2007 11:21

Team Foundation Server 2008 and all of the 64 bits

Microsoft is lately trying to go 64 bits with their OS. Vista x64 isn't going anywhere due to the lack of 3rd party drivers (hey, it is hard to obtain even 32 bit drivers for Vista , you can forget about 64 bits for now). At least that's my experience.
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
8. avgust 2007 18:05

Vista fixed?

I saw over Matevz's blog that Microsoft released a couple of Vista pre-SP1 reliability updates . Of course I've installed them both without hesitation (you should install them only if they fix a problem you have, see KB for performance update and reliability
Posted by Miha Markic | 0 Comments
Filed under:
7. avgust 2007 13:54

The good and the bad about Acronis True Image

I have been using Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 (TI) for a couple of months now (I am doing disk image backups of my computers) and have good and bad news. Perhaps I should start with the good. I hoped that I wouldn't really need restore functionality
Posted by Miha Markic | 2 Comments