software development practices

code organization

The Joy of Deletion

I generally dislike these kinds of “Me, too!” posts, but I have to make an exception for Ned Batchelder’s excellent blog entry on deleting code. I’ve often run into this phenomenon with other developers, and it bugged the heck out of me, although I couldn’t quantify exactly

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User-Friendly Exception Handling

user experience

User-Friendly Exception Handling

I just posted a new article on Code Project, User Friendly Exception Handling. This is a set of classes that deal with unhandled and handled exceptions through a consistent UI, as presented in Alan Cooper’s great book, About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design. Anyway, at the time

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