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Sahil Malik presenting to OKC Developers Group on June 5th

Oklahoma City Developers Group Meeting – June 5th, 2006 Our next meeting is coming up on Monday, June 5th, and we will be hosted by LSG at OSU-OKC for lunch and TEK Systems at the Downtown Library for our evening meeting. Thanks to INETA, Pizza and drinks will be FREE at both meetings so please be sure...

Published Tue, May 30 2006 3:38 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, .Net Development
Presenting at CodeCamp in Wichita, KS on June 3rd.

I’ll be presenting 2 sessions at the Wichita Developer’s CodeCamp this coming Saturday, June 3rd. The first session will cover building a strongly-typed session wrapper class. Session has always been an issue with me, because for one, its not strongly-typed, and secondly, you have to worry about developers...

Published Tue, May 30 2006 8:30 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development
Why do some programmers hate the thought of using a managed framework?

I have this discussion with various .Net non-believers, and maybe its just me, but I can’t imagine why they just don’t understand what I’m telling them. The arguments against moving to a managed framework mostly come from the hardcore C and C++ developers I talk to. Writing software is about delivering...

Published Fri, May 26 2006 8:10 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development
Before you telecommute, know why telecommuting is hard

The following explains why I never telecommute anymore, and why telecommuters may not get as much work done as us office dwellers. I used to telecommute, and this is what my day was like: I decide its time to start working. As I start toward the office, I notice that there is mail on the hall table....

Published Wed, May 17 2006 2:17 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities
Avoid breaking your API - pay attention to your constructors.

I was playing with a document coverter API a few months ago to do some PDF to Word conversions. I had some code already built into a console app to use that version and it was working fine. Last night I went and downloaded their latest version, and wouldn’t you know, it commited one of the major crimes...

Published Thu, May 11 2006 7:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development, OOP
Communication is key - why I was misunderstood

Maybe you live in a cubicle. You love your privacy, your personal space, your segregation from the rest of the office. You have it decorated how you want and its your home away from home. You have email and instant messengers at your fingertips to communicate with your co-workers. What a wonderful world...

Published Tue, May 9 2006 11:18 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Extreme Programming
Asking for your ideas regarding refactoring a design smell

Logic can certainly destroy your code reuse, and produce quasi-design smells that you’d really like to do something about because it aggrevates you, but you can’t really change. What if I told you that I had 9 different functions that determine if a date is one calendar year from today’s date? You’d...

Published Mon, May 8 2006 1:45 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development, Patterns and Practices
Common patterns posters to decorate with

Once again, while just browsing through my harddrive, I came across 2 nice posters that I thought I would share with you. They are 2 posters that show common patterns used on object-oriented design. The patterns grouped by color and cover: Creational Singleton Factory Structural Facade Decorator Adapter...

Published Wed, May 3 2006 5:35 PM by Raymond Lewallen
Learn from my mistakes - refactoring and fixing design smells using common patterns

So I’m working in a maintenance release right now. Very little added functionality. My current release at work is primarily to adjust to domain logic changes. This starts by adjusting the unit tests to accomodate the changed logic, and then fixing the code to fix the tests. Still, due to the nature of...

Published Mon, May 1 2006 9:56 PM by Raymond Lewallen

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Sahil Malik presenting to OKC Developers Group on June 5th

Presenting at CodeCamp in Wichita, KS on June 3rd.

Why do some programmers hate the thought of using a managed framework?

Before you telecommute, know why telecommuting is hard

Avoid breaking your API - pay attention to your constructors.

Communication is key - why I was misunderstood

Asking for your ideas regarding refactoring a design smell

Common patterns posters to decorate with

Learn from my mistakes - refactoring and fixing design smells using common patterns