During the past few weeks, I’ve learned way more about InstallShield than I ever wanted to know. Several months ago, I was tasked with creating an installer for one of our applications at work. Th...

Typically, when I first start to work with a new language or development technology, I try and stay away from the ubiquitous “Hello World” example. The first application that I created using Longho...

Several months ago, I figured out how to get the internet connection working properly through Longhorn. Recently, I managed to really screw up my image so I ended up rebuilding it. This time, I in...

Recently, I have been really trying to adopt two of the Extreme Programming (XP) rules. The first being constant refactoring and the second being test driven development (TDD). Recently, I bought ...

I stumbled across this gem the other day. Hopefully, you’ll find it as funny as I did. Some of my favorites: Rigidly follow the guidelines about no goto, no early returns, and no labelled brea...

Please keep your opinions about the technology to yourself. Most of the attendees are there to learn about the technologies. Your position as a speaker is to educate those people about the technolo...

For the last few weeks, Ive been seriously looking into Test Driven Development (TDD) and how it could positively affect my development processes. For the most part, this has been an enlightening e...

A lot of times, when installing an application, it will be necessary to run some SQL scripts to prepare the application for first use. Of course, you could have the user do this part manual, but i...

Charles and John are talking about junction points, which are an NTFS feature let you create directory aliases. I’ve implemented the ideas that Charles presented to succesfully work with a project...

Here’s a good way to waste a weekend…