May 10
I am horrible with other people’s important dates, e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, date you got your appendix removed, etc. I just realized I should put all that info into my Gmail Contacts, and then it will appear on my Google Calendar automatically. Oh wait… It doesn’t show up. Damn. Why doesn’t it work? Turns out, this …
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Feb 04
I am starting to design a new API for an application that will need to integrate with other applications. Before doing so, I always make it a point to re-watch and re-read this presentation given by Joshua Bloch from Google. Joshua does a fantastic job going over the DOs and DON’Ts of good API design. …
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Jul 13
After using SnagIt for several years with my old company, I was in need of an open source replacement. After using everyone’s favorite research assistant, I found Greenshot. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that SnagIt has, but it has the basics which is what you use 80% of the time anyway. So …
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Mar 19
I originally did this back in 2007, but did not want to lose the content, so I decided to put it up here. I found a robust and relatively simple calendar control to use for web UIs. It can use a pop-up window or a floating <div> tag. I prefer the latter as it makes …
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Dec 14
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
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
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
I just saw on my RSS that GWT 2.0 has been released. Gonna go play now. Bye.
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Dec 06
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
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/03/visual-studio-2008-and-visio-for-enterprise-architects/
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