Category: General

After some prodding by the group, I’ve got a Wiki for the Charlotte Java User’s Group up and running at http://wiki.charjug.org. I’ve also transferred over John Currier’s excellent list of Java employers in Charlotte (be sure to check out his awesome SchemaSpy tool for databases). Now I suppose I should get a site up for…

I was going through trying to figure out how to get the version number of our built assemblies from NAnt. We specify them using AssemblyInfo.cs, so the GetVersion tasks weren’t working for me. I found a post by Michael Flanakin which outlined his way of pulling the version number from a file. That gave me…

Kelly Anderson recently sent over a layout manager for C# that models the Boxes and Glue method from TeX. For those of you not aware of that, the general concept as I understand it is having a UI made up of boxes that can resize dynamically and stay in relative position to each other based…

I guess one can never hit the big time until you make it into a Dilbert Cartoon. So, I guess that means XP/Agile has made it. (Thanks to Dale Emery for pointing it out on the XP list)

Interesting little trick I came across today. I had a list of values that looked like: Compare time: 0.109375sCompare time: 0.015625sCompare time: 0.03125sCompare time: 0.015625sCompare time: 0.03125sCompare time: 0.015625s I wanted to add up all the values, and didn’t have access to a Linux box (where I could just run awk in a while loop),…

Yes, yes, Oh my gosh, it’s so cool that now the world has brought up Web 2.0 and AJAX we’ll finally be able to have full-fledged apps from the browser. Whoop de doo. Please. I mean, first, AJAX isn’t all that new. Yes, it is now gaining support in mainstream browsers, but it didn’t just…

Recently, I got an email from someone who was trying to figure out how they should go about testing a private void class. They had an existing legacy app they were trying to get under test, and just weren’t sure how to approach it. The methods looked like: private void menuItem15_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){  Fdialog =…

I was excited to come across Nokia’s new open source site. Combining that with their recent announcement to be on board with Eclipse, and it just goes to show how much I love that platform. I’ve heard rumors that they are going to be releasing a way to build apps in C# for their Symbian…

For those of you who in the U.S. who are changing your clocks back an hour tonight, and even for those of you who aren’t, be sure to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. If you don’t have a smoke detector, you can purchase them pretty cheaply at any store like…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been helping some fine developers port over FIT from Java to C#. The SpreadsheetRunner is part of that, but there are other core ones that SpreadsheetRunner inherits from, namely CustomRunner and MakeParse. Since I could find the existing unit tests for those I gave it the ol’…