Category Archives: Programming

A Great Feeling

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Phileosophos

Well, I did it. I spent all day Saturday and basically all day Sunday working, but it means I’m largely done. I know of one feature I’ve yet to implement, and I’m sure there will be bugs and some requests. … Continue reading →

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Seeing Daylight

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Phileosophos

I’m getting to the point where I think I’m almost seeing daylight. In other words, I think the constant working I’ve been doing for a couple of months is finally coming to a close. I just have a few more … Continue reading →

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Converting a Subversion Repository to Mercurial

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Phileosophos

I’ve been using Subversion for several years and have always been frustrated in certain respects. So I have monitored the development of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) with great interest, most notably Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial (Hg). Though all three … Continue reading →

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The Psychology of Software Development

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Phileosophos

If you Google the psychology of software development, you find a surprising number of hits (roughly 4.2 million at the time of this writing). Yet sifting through many of them demonstrates that most of the attention goes to the application … Continue reading →

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Layers Versus Reusability

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Phileosophos

I bash Microsoft a lot for stupid coding practices, but I think they often deserve it. Take a quick look at the recent article at Ars Technica on “MinWin” for a good example. I quote: Another problem was the tendency … Continue reading →

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SEPY on Vista x64

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Phileosophos

Doing serious Flash development is complicated by the incredibly lame editing features supplied by the application, which is why many developers prefer to edit their ActionScript code in SEPY. If you write ActionScript and haven’t tried it, you should check … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET GridView EditItemTemplate JavaScript Validation

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Phileosophos

I realize that’s a long-ish title, but my hope is that the Google elves will make it widely available to anybody needing help. This post is all about programming, more specifically about doing client-side validation using JavaScript for TemplateField elements … Continue reading →

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