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Mark DiGiovanni

Software Development and Supporting Technologies

September 2004 - Posts

  • Problem leaving comments

    A short time ago,  Stefano Demiliani posted an issue he was having with his blog.

    “...the cause of the problem was my Google form for searching... the GET method blocks my Feedback button.“

    Today I was trying to leave a comment on Peter Marshall's post about A9.com.  Peter, I think your Google box is causing the same problem.  I also was not able to send you an email directly from your blog.

    --Mark

  • #develop (SharpDevelop) 1.0 Released


    SharpDevelop 1.0 has been released.

    http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/WhatsNew.aspx
    http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/Features.aspx

    Download:
    http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/Download/

    Features:

    • Forms designer for C# and VB.NET
    • Code completion for C# and VB.NET (including Ctrl+Space support)
    • Folding
    • Code AutoInsert (Alt+Ins)
    • C# to VB.NET converter, as well as VB.NET to C# converter
    • Completely written in C#
    • Compile C# and VB.NET in the IDE out-of-the-box
    • Open source, GPL licensed
    • ILAsm and C++ backends
    • Integrated NUnit support
    • Assembly Analyzer ("FxCop on steroids")
    • Xml documentation preview
    • User interface translated to many languages
    • Everything templated: add new project or file types, or even compilers to SharpDevelop
    • Write C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, HTML code
    • Project or File-based development (Project Scout & File Scout)
    • Rich project options
    • Syntax highlighting for C#, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML
    • Intelligent braces
    • Bookmark your code
    • Code template support
    • Feature-rich Find & Replace dialogs
    • Easily extensible with external tools
    • Easily extensible with Plug-Ins
    • ... and much more

    Web Development with SharpDevelop, Web Matrix, and DBGCLR

    --Mark

  • Volunteers sought for Mozilla preview push

    Get Firefox! 

     

    The Mozilla Foundation released its Firefox browser preview along with a new e-mail client and a community marketing site.”

    Read on here.

    You can find the “Spread Firefox“ site here.  They are shooting for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days

    --Mark

  • Seven deadly excuses for poor design

    I've recently experienced #3.

    3. "The requirements make it clear what has to be done."
    Translation: “Simply including certain features is more important than how those features are implemented.”

    Development of requirements should be part of a customer-centered design process: it should be based on established user needs and followed by a design process that includes customers throughout. However, many cultures have become feature-focused, and they over-emphasize what needs to be done while paying little attention to how it is to be designed.

    Companies with feature-focused cultures will tend to generate requirements in-house and base requirements on scanty, anecdotal, and/or antiquated customer information. They may also consider the requirements the measure by which finished products are evaluated, instead of balancing that view with external measures such as usability test results.

    Read on here.

    --Mark

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