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Category Archives: Software development

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Software development lessons learned from moving a 300 pound HD TV

31July2007GeekTieGuySoftware development

I was helping a friend move an older, 300 pound HD TV recently. Here are some things that happened and what I think you can learn from them about collaboration on software projects (or any collaborative project for that matter): We had a large trailer that was much bigger than needed for the TV. We filled up

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Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

23January2007GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, Vista, WPF

I ran into an interesting little quirk with Visual Studio 2005 on Vista yesterday. I was trying to start an XBAP debugging session from VS (using the F5 key), and none of my breakpoints got triggered. Upon exiting the IE instance that hosts PresentationHost.exe, VS considered the session as still “running”. I had set my

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Localizing an XBAP application without using LocBaml

12December2006GeekTieGuy9 CommentsSoftware development, WPF

Using the LocBaml sample application that Microsoft provides with the Windows SDK for Windows Presentation Foundation can be very frustrating. By default it seems to pick up a lot of things that clutter the resulting CSV file. If your application contains a lot of image resources, those will get duplicated in the localized resource dlls

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Software craftsmanship vs. “HighTech” jobs

13November2006GeekTieGuyPersonal, Software development

I recently read “Peopleware” by DeMarco and Lister, a book I highly recommend to anyone wanting to understand how to manage people who write software for a living. They mention several times that most software writers don’t work in “HighTech” jobs. The ones who really do the “HighTech” stuff are the people who write the

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