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Stuff that concerns my personal life more than usual topics
Tim already let the cat out of the bag - I've been accepted as a blogger to Devlicio.us.. I'm very thrilled to be onboard and blogging alongside of so many great people, many of whom I know from twittering, gtalking etc...
If you're subscribed to this blog, don't worry - it's not going away. It's still going to stay around. I think I'm gonna cross-post technical posts to both blogs, and keep more personal stuff, and things not really in line with devlicio.us here.
So, having said that, thanks guys for having me, and I'll do my best to keep up with...
Ever since I changed the skin of my blog to the current one, if you clicked any tag from the tag cloud you’d get an error 404. Few people pinged me about it during past few months, but I thought it would require some time to make it work, so I never got around to actually fixing it. Until today. As it turned out it was just a matter of copying missing control from another skin’ folder to my current one. Can it be any simpler? Anyway it works now (at least on my machine ) so enjoy. ...
As few people pointed out, my blog sometimes renders incorrectly in Firefox. The right pane, moves left, and it makes things look less than ideal. As my knowledge of CSS is very poor I call for help to you, dear reader. I will give a free license for NHibernate to the first person who helps me with this. Contact me via GTalk, email, or Contact form of this site if you want to help.
It pays up to hold on to your new year resolutions. I won a ReSharper license at today’s meeting of KGD.NET
Happy birthday to me. Photo by bethography - melting mama
It took quite longer than I had expected, but by the end of the year I bought few books from Amazon, and finally, they’re here. (HINT: You can use the link to see some more books I'd love to have... and then buy some for me ). Anyway, here’s what I bought: After I placed the order, I noticed that I have very similar taste to Casey Charlton, but I digress.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Martin Fowler: BooksISBN: 0321127420ISBN-13: 9780321127426
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As developers from our first years we are taught by our masters: “Comment your code you should, my young apprentice”. I even found this article, that outlines 13 rules, on how you should comment your code. I only have two rules for that: Don’t comment what your code is doing. If you find it necessary, it’s a code smell, and you should start thinking about refactoring it, so that it’s obvious. Do comment why your code does what it does. Other than that, merry Christmas and happy new year everybody. ...
Many people visiting my site (myself included) have stumbled upon this error message: I took some time yesterday and, since Subtext is an open source project, I looked into the code trying to find what’s causing it, and fixed it. I don’t know Subtext’s architecture all that well, so I may have broken something on the way. My error log shows no exceptions (as compared to quite a few a day before the fix), so either people stopped visiting my site, or I fixed it without breaking anything else. If I’m wrong, and you...
See you in two weeks. Technorati Tags: Crete, Greece
I really need to come up with filtering strategy, or get some long vacations to go thorough all the good stuff that’s there. Any ideas? How do you handle the discussion groups? Technorati Tags: ALT.NET, Castle, XP, NHibernate
I just love living in Kraków. There are so many incredible things going on here all the time. Yesterday I went to Błonia, to see one of the most spectacular shows I've ever seen. As a part of the 1st Film Music Festival, Błonia were changed to giant open-air cinema, where Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was screened. The best part however, is that the complete soundtrack was performed live during the movie. The orchestra + choirs summed up to total of almost 300 people on stage. You can get a taste of...
Globalization is a serious issue if you create a software that is to be used worldwide. You may for example take into account that people have non a-z letters in their names, like for example 'ź'. If you don't consider that, your users may come across windows like this one, I saw while registering to Windows Live Spaces. So what should I do? Lie about my last name? And the funniest thing is: there's no 'ź' on the list of forbidden characters. Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Office, Globalization, l10n, i13n
This week I received my most recent purchase from Amazon. (HINT: You can use the link to see some more books I'd love to have... and even buy some for me ). Here's what I bought: Code Complete 2nd edition. With Jeff Atwood advocating it so much, it was not a hard choice. I actually wanted to purchase a book that would generally provide proven practices, and high level overview of programming in a language agnostic way. This seems to be it, and even more. The book is said to be one of all-time-classics of computer...
I've been using Subtext for this blog since its very beginning 10 months ago. Back then I installed what was the latest version (1.9.5 with later security-fix). I was pretty happy with it. I don't have high needs: it is supported by Windows Live writer, is stable and just works. However I've been receiving emails from people complaining that they cant post comments to my blog. I checked the issue, and I was able to reproduce it, with error message presented on the screenshot. I googled for it, but I didn't find out anything useful. I decided to upgrade my...
As Paulo Morgado brought to my attention, Microsoft published absolutely for free, full pdf e-book version of new Introducing Microsoft LINQ book, by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo. Its got average Amazon rating, but hey - don't look a gift horse in the mouth. You can get the book (and some free chapters of two other) here. Technorati Tags: ebook, linq, Microsoft
Ok, seriously - I might be just the only blogger in Poland that hasn't written anything about Nasza-klasa.pl in the passing year. It's basically social networking site where you write all schools you went to, and it helps you find people from the same school, the same class and so on. It's been a huge success here in Poland, and everyone is talking about it, even my mom knows what it is, and that's quite an achievement. Well, anyway - my wife seems to like it, and she spends quite a lot of time there, and she found this on...
I've just listen to new .NET Rocks podcast with Don Box, and Chris Sells about, well - about myriad of things, but main topic was technical books and ways of learning new technologies. They mostly focused on shrinking market of books, as blogs become more popular and people gain their knowledge from blogs more and more and less from books. However, I thing there is one difference that they barely touched, although it's the most important one. There will be place for books, and not only as a way to get the zen of a technology, but as a...
I'm preparing an overview of xUML, MDA and UML, how they fit together and most of all about advantages and disadvantages of using this methodology. I googled a little bit and although in theory those look pretty promising, I really couldn't find much success stories, nor tools supporting xUML (I found only 2: iUML and Cassandra). Generating complete code generated from model seems tempting, so why noone is using it? Is it lack of tools? Or maybe it's all too vague, too imprecise, and people are afraid, that, after all they will have to dive into this generated model and...
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