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Showing posts with label XYZ - Misc. Show all posts
Monday, January 11, 2010
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Bug / Feature / Task Tracking Tools
FogBugz: http://www.fogbugz.com/
Mantis Bug Tracker: http://www.mantisbt.org/
Redmine: http://www.redmine.org/
Bugzilla: http://www.bugzilla.org/
OnTime: http://www.axosoft.com/
BugTracker.NET: http://ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html
Team Foundation Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/
Assembla: http://www.assembla.com/
TeamTrack: http://www.serena.com/products/teamtrack
TestTrackPro: http://www.seapine.com/ttpro.html
Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/
EPAM PMC Suite: http://www.epam-pmc.com/
SourceForge Enterprise Edition: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/452
Basecamp: http://basecamphq.com/
Request Tracker: http://www.bestpractical.com/rt
Monday, May 4, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Future of C#
Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division. He is an influential creator of development tools and programming languages. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the Microsoft .NET framework.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Pitfalls for Startups Driven by Software Developers
1) Putting your needs above the customer
2) Not clarifying your business idea
3) Not marketing yourself
4) Not branding yourself
5) Not managing your money
6) Not knowing who your customers are
7) Not acting in a professional manner
Source: jay @ StackOverflow.com
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Weekend Reading
Steve McConnel: Classic mistakes:
Few Short Methods Per Class:
The Big Ball of Mud and Other Architectural Disasters:
How to Design Exception Hierarchies:
Design Principles and Design Patterns:
What Makes a System Hard to Work With?
Big Ball of Mud (classic)
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Custom file types: How to assiciate files with apps in Windows
Wouldn't it be nice to have your own file type for your enterprise application? E.g a custom xml file with metadata for your documents. This CodeProject article shows how it works:
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
How to check if the current user is administrator
bool isAdmin = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()).IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Hanselman: What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know
Everyone who writes code
Answers: http://sendhil.
* Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process?
* What is a Windows Service and how does its lifecycle differ from
a "standard" EXE?
* What is the maximum amount of memory any single process on Windows
can address? Is this different than the maximum virtual memory for the
system? How would this affect a system design?
* What is the difference between an EXE and a DLL?
* What is strong-typing versus weak-typing? Which is preferred? Why?
* Corillian's product is a "Component Container." Name at
least 3 component containers that ship now with the Windows Server Family.
* What is a PID? How is it useful when troubleshooting a system?
* How many processes can listen on a single TCP/IP port?
* What is the GAC? What problem does it solve?
Mid-Level .NET Developer
Answers: http://sendhil.
* Describe the difference between Interface-oriented, Object-oriented
and Aspect-oriented programming.
* Describe what an Interface is and how it's different from a Class.
* What is Reflection?
* What is the difference between XML Web Services using ASMX and .NET
Remoting using SOAP?
* Are the type system represented by XmlSchema and the CLS isomorphic?
* Conceptually, what is the difference between early-binding and late-binding?
* Is using Assembly.Load a static reference or dynamic reference?
* When would using Assembly.LoadFrom or Assembly.LoadFile be appropriate?
* What is an Asssembly Qualified Name? Is it a filename? How is it
different?
* Is this valid? Assembly.Load("foo.dll");
* How is a strongly-named assembly different from one that isn't strongly-named?
* Can DateTimes be null?
* What is the JIT? What is NGEN? What are limitations and benefits
of each?
* How does the generational garbage collector in the .NET CLR manage
object lifetime? What is non-deterministic finalization?
* What is the difference between Finalize() and Dispose()?
* How is the using() pattern useful? What is IDisposable? How does
it support deterministic finalization?
* What does this useful command line do? tasklist /m "mscor*"
* What is the difference between in-proc and out-of-proc?
* What technology enables out-of-proc communication in .NET?
* When you're running a component within ASP.NET, what process is it running within on Windows
XP? Windows 2000? Windows 2003?
Senior Developers/Architects
Answers: http://sendhil.
* What's wrong with a line like this? DateTime.Parse(myString);
* What are PDBs? Where must they be located for debugging to work?
* What is cyclomatic complexity and why is it important?
* Write a standard lock() plus "double check" to create a
critical section around a variable access.
* What is FullTrust? Do GAC'ed assemblies have FullTrust?
* What benefit does your code receive if you decorate it with attributes
demanding specific Security permissions?
* What does this do? gacutil /l | find /i "Corillian"
* What does this do? sn -t foo.dll
* What ports must be open for DCOM over a firewall? What is the purpose
of Port 135?
* Contrast OOP and SOA. What are tenets of each?
* How does the XmlSerializer work? What ACL permissions does a process
using it require?
* Why is catch(Exception) almost always a bad idea?
* What is the difference between Debug.Write and Trace.Write? When
should each be used?
* What is the difference between a Debug and Release build? Is there
a significant speed difference? Why or why not?
* Does JITting occur per-assembly or per-method? How does this affect
the working set?
* Contrast the use of an abstract base class against an interface?
* What is the difference between a.Equals(b) and a == b?
* In the context of a comparison, what is object identity versus object
equivalence?
* How would one do a deep copy in .NET?
* Explain current thinking around IClonable.
* What is boxing?
* Is string a value type or a reference type?
* What is the significance of the "PropertySpecified" pattern
used by the XmlSerializer? What problem does it attempt to solve?
* Why are out parameters a bad idea in .NET? Are they?
* Can attributes be placed on specific parameters to a method? Why
is this useful?
C# Component Developers
Answers: http://sendhil.
* Juxtapose the use of override with new. What is shadowing?
* Explain the use of virtual, sealed, override, and abstract.
* Explain the importance and use of each component of this string:
Foo.Bar, Version=2.0.205.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=
* Explain the differences between public, protected, private and internal.
* What benefit do you get from using a Primary Interop Assembly (PIA)?
* By what mechanism does NUnit know what methods to test?
* What is the difference between: catch(Exception e){throw e;} and
catch(Exception e){throw;}
* What is the difference between typeof(foo) and myFoo.GetType()?
* Explain what's happening in the first constructor: public class c{
public c(string a) : this() {;}; public c() {;} } How is this construct
useful?
* What is this? Can this be used within a static method?
ASP.NET (UI) Developers
* Describe how a browser-based Form POST becomes a Server-Side event
like Button1_OnClick.
* What is a PostBack?
* What is ViewState? How is it encoded? Is it encrypted? Who uses ViewState?
* What is the <machinekey> element and what two ASP.NET technologies is it used for?
* What three Session State providers are available in ASP.NET 1.1? What are the pros and cons of each?
* What is Web Gardening? How would using it affect a design?
* Given one ASP.NET application, how many application objects does
it have on a single proc box? A dual? A dual with Web Gardening enabled?
How would this affect a design?
* Are threads reused in ASP.NET between reqeusts? Does every HttpRequest get
its own thread? Should you use Thread Local storage with ASP.NET?
* Is the [ThreadStatic] attribute useful in ASP.NET? Are there side effects? Good or bad?
* Give an example of how using an HttpHandler could simplify an existing
design that serves Check Images from an .aspx page.
* What kinds of events can an HttpModule subscribe to? What influence
can they have on an implementation? What can be done without recompiling
the ASP.NET Application?
* Describe ways to present an arbitrary endpoint (URL) and route requests
to that endpoint to ASP.NET.
* Explain how cookies work. Give an example of Cookie abuse.
* Explain the importance of HttpRequest.ValidateInput()?
* What kind of data is passed via HTTP Headers?
* Juxtapose the HTTP verbs GET and POST. What is HEAD?
* Name and describe at least a half dozen HTTP Status Codes and what
they express to the requesting client.
* How does if-not-modified-since work? How can it be programmatically
implemented with ASP.NET?
Explain <@OutputCache%> and the usage of VaryByParam, VaryByHeader.
* How does VaryByCustom work?
* How would one implement ASP.NET HTML output caching, caching outgoing versions
of pages generated via all values of q= except where q=5 (as in http://localhost/page.aspx?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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