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Code 39 Barcode Generation

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:37 AM by loufranco
I read this kind of funny story about a kid who got himself into a little trouble reading and writing barcodes by hand . After reading it, I figured if he's going through the trouble of getting graph paper and markers to write Code 39, I can certainly Read More...
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Attachment(s): BarcodeWriterDlls.zip

Clojure Presentation In Northampton

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:13 AM by loufranco
On March 20th, the regular meeting of the Western Mass Developer's Group will feature Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that compiles to Java Bytecode and runs on the JVM. It features persistent, immutable data structures Read More...
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AJAX v. Flash: Another Datapoint

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:27 PM by loufranco
Last week, I wondered why Scribd uses Flash instead of AJAX and mentioned that it wouldn't work on my iPhone. Today I read that Debian has removed flash from their distribution . Sure, the number of Debian installations won't even show up in the 3rd decimal Read More...
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Business of Software Conference

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:15 AM by loufranco
The 2nd annual Business of Software Conference will be in Boston in the Fall. The conference is a off-shoot of the very popular BoS Forum on JoelOnSoftware . The site has videos up from last year's conference. I found this one on measuring your code's Read More...
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Stream-Oriented Programming in PowerShell

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 4:12 PM by loufranco
While preparing my PowerShell presentation a few weeks ago, I was reminded of this explanation of stream processing from the SICP lectures . This concept is widely used in Unix shells, but is really taken to the next level in PowerShell. In fact, after Read More...
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Designing for Intellisense

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 8:28 AM by loufranco
Atalasoft was at DevConnections this week, and I went to a some of the sessions including one on a deep dive of Linq, where I learned why Linq looks like this: from ord in orders select ord.id, ord.amount Instead of this: select ord.id, ord.amount from Read More...
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Seven Tips for More Effective GUI Tests

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 2:45 PM by loufranco
One of the things I did for our new 4.0 release was write some GUI tests with AutomatedQA's TestComplete for our new and improved AJAX Image Viewer and Thumbnail Viewer . Along the way I learned a lot about how to write and maintain automated GUI scripts Read More...
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Atalasoft in 3D

Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:52 PM by loufranco
Part of what I'm doing puts me knee-deep in Atalasoft ImageCommands. I was staring at some results of TintGrayscale and wondered how easy it would be to make the kind of 3D images that are a combined red and blue images with Atalasoft dotImage. Turns Read More...
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Attachment(s): 3DPhotoMaker.zip

On Optimizing: Tips for the inner loop

Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 8:56 AM by loufranco
Everyone knows the first two rules of optimizing: (1) Don't pre-optimize, and (2) Use a profiling tool to make sure you spend time optimizing the right code. I mostly agree with (1) -- I'll get back to that in a bit, and nothing beats a good profiling Read More...
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XAML vs. The Humble Dialog Box

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:20 PM by loufranco
The Humble Dialog Box [pdf] is a pattern to separate UI behavior from code that deals with a specific view technology, like WPF. Essentially, for each window you have a UI data/behavior class, an abstract view class (or interface), and a concrete view Read More...
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