debugging
I'm looking forward to VS.NET 2005 like everyone else, but the one killer feature that will absolutely compel me to upgrade on day of release is Edit and Continue. I had no idea exactly how much time I spent editing live code in VB6's debugger
unix
A few months ago, Eric Raymond, the open source guru best known for his seminal paper, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, posted a rant about the difficulty he encountered with a common user printing scenario in UNIX. The follow-up post is even more intriguing: I am informed that an RFE
error messages
I'm sure I don't have to explain what is wrong with error messages like this: Catastrophic Failure General Protection Fault Error: The operation completed successfully But as bad as those are, they pale in comparison to what is, hands down, the worst kind of error message:
.net
You'd think someone would have written a decent, generic .NET About Box by now. Well, if it's out there, I couldn't find it! The About Box isn't an essential part of any application, but my research (and practical experience) indicates it has