Monthly Archive: December 2009

Dec 14

Primality Test v2.0

After feedback from some friends of mine, and doing a little bit of background research, I am writing this update to my original post last week.  As it turns out, by checking all the numbers in the form 6k ± 1  instead of checking each number up to the input value, I have increased the speed …

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Dec 10

Determining if a Number is Prime

While working on some caching settings, I had a need to know if a number is prime. I wrote this little Python script which will tell you if the number defined in the script is indeed a prime.

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Dec 10

Peer Code Review: An Agile Process

Smart Bear Software recently released a white paper discussing the misconception that peer code review is a hindrance to Agile development methodologies.  For anyone who regularly performs peer code reviews, would like to start performing them, or thinks they are an obstacle when it comes to Agile development should read this paper. The paper talks …

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Dec 09

GWT 2.0 Released!

I just saw on my RSS that GWT 2.0 has been released.  Gonna go play now. Bye.

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Dec 06

Converting a Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to a Visual Studio 2008 Web Application Project

For anyone looking to upgrade their VS 2005 Web Application project to VS 2008, I found good walkthrough provided by Microsoft here.

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Dec 03

Visual Studio 2008 and Visio for Enterprise Architects

I have started working on a new project in .NET and the Problem Domain (PD) was modeled in Visio UML.  Fantastic.  Now I wanted to forward engineer the UML into C# classes to begin development, but wait, I can’t.  I only have Visio 2007 Professional, and the forward engineering features are only available in the …

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