Just some semi-elegant stuff I’ve conjured up recently to get column names in Excel and do some other functional things. I wrote this code in a true TDD fashion. It still, for some reason, seems odd to me to write tests in VB, since it was always a language that encouraged dirtiness. But alas, this... Continue reading →

The mumbo jumbo of use case, requirements gathering, and all that are a necessary evil of software design. We developers cannot unfortunately just haphazardly build our UIs and other such things. It is necessary that in some way the user interface is dictated by the users. In the past, especially with waterfall, this has been... Continue reading →

Some weeks just suck. From the first minutes ticking away on a Monday one can see these types of weeks coming. When just absurd off the wall stuff starts to break. Next the complex things break that have easy solutions, just that no one has ever seen the breakages to know the solutions. My last... Continue reading →

Someone was saying something about not seeing IT jobs in the help wanted section of the newspaper. In response someone wrote, and I quote, “Employers don’t really expect IT people to be looking at dead tree medium for jobs.” Seriously, if you’re in IT and you’re digging through the newspaper, you’re doing the industry and... Continue reading →

This is why one writes unit tests and refactors. Re: line # 13:47 [13:39] Jabley: I reverted the last change I made and it is still broke. Grrr! [13:45] Adron: ok [13:45] Jabley: I am just trying to figure out how the f*** to salvage this. [13:45] Adron: kewl. [13:45] Adron: not sure what kind... Continue reading →