About code. Mostly on C++
Marius Bancila This week I decided to test the March CTP of Visual Studio code-named ‘Orcas’. So I started with a google search for the the download page, I found two: Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” – March Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Self-extracting Install): contains 7 archives totalling 4.5GB Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code … Read more
Surprize! According to the latest Internet Security Threat Report release on March 19, 2007 by Symantec, Microsoft Windows is the most secure operating system. The survey covered the second half of 2006, in which period Microsoft Windows had 29 vulnerabilities, with 12 of highly priority or severe, and the turnaround for fixing them was 13 … Read more
Yesterday I posted an article about readability of code, code conventions, Hungarian notation and its inventor, Charles Simonyi. Today I found that he paied between 20-25 million dollars for a 10-days stay on the International Space Station. Moreover, Space Adventure Ldt., the company that organizes the trips said it will bring special meals for him. You … Read more
One of the most important qualities of code is, or at least should be, readability. The simple fact that it works is not enough. If it’s not readable, it definitelly ain’t maintainable. Thus, our mission, as programmers, is to right code, that above being correct, is also readable and understandable. When a new programmer joins a team … Read more
Recently, CodeGuru has published my article about customizing the Places Bar of the common file dialog. In this article I have explained how to twick the registry to display your own list of shortcuts in the places bar. The folders are specified in registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER in Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ComDlg32\PlacesBar in two ways: either by IDs for … Read more
I have decided to select and post several more pictures from the summit. In the first you can see Bill Gates delivering his keynote on March 13 to a group of 1700 MVPs from 95 countries. Just after Bill Gates’ speech, the Canadians gathered for a group picture, all wearing jerseys of their national hockey … Read more
Anders Hejlsberg, creator of Turbo Pascal and C#, delivered a great presentation on LINQ on Tuesday. This was actually my first contact with LINQ (which stands for Language INtegrated Query), but it makes me envy the C# and VB.NET programmers, because these are the only two languages that support it. LINQ defines a set of general-purpose … Read more
On Monday 12, I have successfully made contact with several fellow MVPs from CodeGuru: Brad Jones, the site manager John Czopowik Alin Negru, a fellow Romanian, that used to live in the same city and work at the same company as I, but now lives in Canada Raymond Hawco aka Arjay., who is actually from … Read more
Yesterday I had the chance to see the city from the observation deck of the Seattle Needle, 500 feet above the ground. Fortunatelly the weather cleared just in time to have a good view over the entire city. However, the wind on the side with to the gulf is so strong, you can hardly breath. … Read more
Several hours ago I have arrived in Seattle for the MVP global summit, 26 hours after leaving my home city, Timisoara. Weather is rainy here and my PDA cell phone doesn’t seem to work. I have already met a fellow MVP, David Portas, from England. I’m looking forward to meeting the other MVPs, especially those … Read more