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Who has bought the autcompletion feature for Linqpad ?
I know it's only $ 19 but I'd like to hear from you if it's worth it... Does it have any bugs? Does it really help in speeding up your linq queries development? Is there any limitations or any particular thing you might have found frustating?
Any thoughts are appreciated ....
I just purchased the autocomplete feature in LINQPad, and so far, it has performed exactly as expected, looks and feels very much like Visual Studio (e.g. tab to autocomplete works exactly the same)
It should be noted that the autocomplete only works for use in C# modes, so VB and SQL modes don't benefit from the feature.
Additionally, when using the C# Statements mode, the autocomplete works for objects already declared (any time "." is entered) and it also kicks in for type declarations (i.e. when using the new keyword), but autocompelte does not appear when starting certain statements (e.g. starting a while loop.
To be clear, I've been very pleased with the performance of LINQPad's autocomplete. Remember, when in doubt, press Ctrl+Space!
Just bought the autocomplete version and highly recommend it...I'd like to echo Kit's remark re the .Dump() method....once you see it used a few times, it becomes very useful.
I bought it to support the authors, not really because I needed the feature itself.
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I've been working in this company for about 8 months now and i'd like some advice how to tell my collegues that what they write is bad practice. Let me give a little introduction first.
The company im working at allows its customers to setup questionairres/surveys. The current code is about 5 years old (or older) and they've made a new platform which supports mobile devices. This platform is relatively new, but i've noticed something which i call 'bad practice':
They simply do not seperate code and html. Everything is dynamically build up using 1 single c# generaing class, which blurts out html, script tags, inline css "style='position: relative;'" and so on.
My main question is:
How do i convince my colleagues and especially my IT manager to keep these seperated.
It's bugging me a lot, but maybe i should just let it go. We simply do not have the resources for it and im probably not the person to make any calls about this. I just dont get how come the programmers who made this new 'platform' didnt think about this.
We also have lots of coding problems:
Different versions of jquery and mootools are being used throughout our applications
There's loads of duplicate code
CSS files being included after each other have stuff like '!important' in them, and some are being overwritten with each include. For example: 'Master.css', 'another_file.css' both declare the exact same css rules.
Please help me out to convince my IT department theyre doing things too unorganized, write unmaintable code and simply have no standards anywhere without sounding like a whiner. Don't get me wrong, i love my job, but it's really working on my nerves. If things don't work they do a little dirty hack on a hack on a hack and things will get more messy by the day.
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That title may be a bit confusing, so let me elaborate. I want to know what the code is behind the choice command. There is not really much reason other than curiosity and the fact that it might help me one day. I've searched everywhere but can't find it.
I don't know much about open source projects and the like, but may it be because Windows doesn't want people to know (or for it to be easily accessible)?
Any information will be appreciated.
Windows is not open source. The code for any Windows command-line utilities is not routinely released. This has nothing to do with Microsoft especially not wanting you to know how choice in particular is implemented!
That said, it looks to be very straight-forward. Implementation would be a dozen lines or so at most.. what part of it is giving you trouble?
As Mahmoud Al-Qudsi pointed out, Windows is not open source. FreeDOS however is, and the choice command is available here.
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In our company we need a project handler so we decided to write our own.
We use CMake and bazaar and we still don't know if to store the informations of the
projects in XML format or in a database.
We are locked at this point: we would like to use as less languages/tools as possible
but we cannot find a way to interface CMake with XML files or databases.
An idea could be Python but it would be really annoying to use a new language just for an interface. We've seen that there's a Python framework (Waf) but we have already used CMake for all our projects and it would take a lot of time to convert all.
We work with Ubuntu and Windows.
Suggestions ?
thanks in advance
Rather than make your own tool, use an off-the-shelf product like something from the Jira suite, or BuildMaster. Many of these have great integration with most build software and don't require you to write and maintain your own stack just to manage projects.
Focus your developer time on solving your business problems, not on reinventing the wheel. Their time is MUCH more valuable than the cost of using a ready-made solution.
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I'm currently trying to write up some software specs for a large-ish project that I'd like to bid out on oDesk (maybe 3k-6k). I have a classical education in computer science, but minimal work experience and I've never worked in a corporate environment.
I've written up 15 pages of project specs for an API that I want to run on Google App Engine. I'm finding the subtleties difficult with issues such as: where to draw the line on what to specify and what not to; how to break the project up into pieces so that if one part goes wrong, other parts can still be used; where and how to set milestones; and how to screen for a candidate who has the skills to properly implement the specs.
I asked a friend what issues I should watch out for and he said:
Make sure specs do not have contradictory information
Make sure specs are not unnecessarily specific because this will turn off more skilled developers
What other pitfalls and common mistakes should I look out for while drawing up project specs?
While it is important to focus on the functionality of what you want to achieve, also keep in mind the non-functional requirements as well. Think about how you want it to perform, security considerations, etc.
One to add to the list
Make sure the specs are unambiguous. (Can only be interpreted one way...Hopefully)
I think these two links will help:
On Reqs And Specs: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/02/0204sj
Painless Functional Specifications - Part 2: What's a Spec?: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000035.html
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There are a million and one CMS' that do a good job but the interface and usability of it let the entire system down (like a lot of websites out there).
Whenever I need to develop a bespoke system for content management I always try and draw on my past experiences and those of my clients to work out what works well and what doesn't. So each time I do one there is a similarity to the last but with some extra tweaking to make it that much better.
So the question is what CMS interface / features have you found a pleasure to work with and why?
Note: This could be editing pages, products, sitemaps, just about anything you needed to manage through a CMS
I personally think inline-editing is a massive speed boost for clients and developers.
Drupal 6's draggable menu reordering is a great feature. It is faster and more intuitive than the weight system from Drupal 5 and the up/down arrows I have seen elsewhere.
I agree with jchrista, drag-and-drop is very nice. This is the feature that initially drew me to Sitefinity. There is an online demo of this here.
I hate InterWoven (just because I find it slow and non intuitive--subjective..), but it has a nice WorkFlow setting that enables you to control the versions you have on the server between what you have been working on and what should be deployed.
Also a good (go back to before the screw up) productivity tools
MOSS has lots of interesting features that are supposed to do the same thing also, which I will look forward to test as we move towards that platform.