Philosophical Geek

There was a meme going around about 5 steps people will take to become a better developer. I’m not a famous enough blogger to get tagged, but I’ll share my 2 cents anyway. There’s nothing like publicizing something to make you committed: 

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In my current project, I’m using a custom ListView-like control to give my WinForms app a very rich interactive experience. This control does not implement mouse wheel scrolling like the Microsoft ListView implementation does so it was up to me to add it. You can use the knowledge in this article to implement full scrolling [...]

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There is a really interesting post by Hugo Kornelis on what happens when you have to introduce the value Unknown to boolean algebra. Unfortunately, it also reminds me of What Is Truth? on WorseThanFailure.
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I’ve been working a lot on a software project. It’s the first thing I’ve done in a long time that I’ve been passionate about. Basically, it’s a LEGO® inventory management system. I know that some existing stuff already exists out there, but mine is going to have a little different focus. I don’t want to [...]

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I have become quickly addicted to this fun, simple flash game: Desktop Towers Defense.
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I’ve got a great process using NUnit in all my .Net projects. However, at work we have a large MFC/C++ application that has NO automated testing. I’ve been planing on getting unit testing into it for quite a while, but finally decided this is the week to do it.
It turns out that C++ unit testing [...]

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