In many ways describing what is and is not an actor is best left to project specifics and personal experience. Below I’ve outlined a good rule to follow when trying to figure out if a “thing” is an actor or not in a use case. Continue reading →

Sometimes I hate stupid statements like that. More secure than “what” Linux is what I’d like to know. But to the point, some articles printed that I picked up from Steven Smith‘s entry on the topic. Usage stats of operating systems 90 day report of security vulnerabilities Continue reading →

I’ve been on a run about coding standards lately, reading about them, figuring out which to follow and which to not follow. Well one thing I had not been looking at much was database standards. I realized I had a bunch of questions; how do you name tables, according to what schema, are views concatenated... Continue reading →

WARNING: This is not a jab at Lowy‘s Standards, I’m just picking on his stuff. So don’t take it to heart, it’s just code. So I’ve been creating tips o’ the day recently and I started reading through some of Juval Lowy’s C# Coding Standards. I’m a follower of Microsoft’s & the Code Analysis/FxCop …... Continue reading →

Recently I made a post about tools you just have to use (at least after you’ve used them just once!). Well there where a few that I had neglected to mention and a few I just stumbled back upon after realizing I had not installed them on my recent machine load. CodeSmith – If you... Continue reading →