Career Paths for Programmers By John Bennett, Jr. The key
March 31, 2008 – 5:00 amCareer Paths for Programmers By John Bennett, Jr.
The key to maintaining a good employment outlook in IT, it seems, is to move out of programming and up into more business-oriented IT positions such as systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, or systems architect. However, a computer programmer can’t just decide to become a systems analyst or project manager overnight.
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Client Application Services - Part 2
In this second part of the series, Bilal Haidar demonstrates how to authenticate and authorize users accessing a Windows Forms application by using Client Application Services introduced with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. He starts with a brief description of Web application host and then examines authentication and authorization aspects involved with its creation. Bilal also shows how to test the Visual Studio 2008 application and provides the whole project for download.
Bilal Haidar
Shifting the Burden - Whose Monkey Is It? By Donald E. Gray
A new installment in the developer.* Systems and Software series, exploring the connections between general systems thinking, cybernetics, and software development. Author Don Gray applies systems thinking principles–including “balancing loops,” symptomatic and systemic solutions, and “shifting the burden”–to a recurring situation with one of his clients.
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Syndicated from Kiwidude’s Geek Spot
I’ve had this "quietly available" on the download page for a few weeks to gain feedback on any issues and with no known issues outstanding it seems appropriate to more publicly announce it.
A big change in NCoverExplorer 1.4.0 is that it is no longer published under the GPL license. I made this change for a number of reasons; amongst which was the concern that a number of companies have of deploying GPL based tools into their development process. This roadblock has been removed and should no longer prevent your companies from using this toolset.
My original choice of GPL was based on using the ICSharpCode 1.x texteditor control. I have now dropped that component in favour of using the superior (but commercial) Actipro SyntaxEditor control instead. The improvements are not only in stability and features but also visual as you can see below in the code highlighting screenshot. A splitter window is available as also shown.
So why should you upgrade to NCoverExplorer 1.4?
This release is less about adding new features (although there are some to be found) and more about stabilisation for the future. The core model code has been rewritten and better tested. There have been countless code coverage corner cases (say that five times in a row!) arise that should be better catered for. Better performance for .NET 2.0 users, lower resource usage, better error handling and some minor gui quirks addressed.
Some of the "internal" changes have spilled over externally. For instance the configuration file format used by NCoverExplorer.Console with /c has changed to support new features, although I have retained legacy compatibility for those who choose not to upgrade their build scripts immediately.
What about the new features? Well, the ones I did squeeze in were…
- Support for the //pm (profiling a process by name) argument in NCover 1.5.8;
- Copy command in the source code text area via right-click;
- Print preview command in the File menu;
- /fc argument for NCoverExplorer.Console to fail a build if the combined total coverage of all assemblies does not meet the minimum specified. This was the original behaviour of the /f command before it was changed to fail if any individual assembly does not meet the minimum;
- Coverage exclusions now support the ‘?’ wildcard and multiple ‘*’ wildcards within the expression.
- Report xml contains a "totalSeqPoints" attribute as requested for developers writing alternate xsl reports that need to calculate the excluded code at each level;
- Update the NAnt/MSBuild task dlls to support the latest changes;
- Redesigned the options dialog as shown below;
CodeSnip: How to Create an Oracle Insert Script Using Substitution Function in UNIX?
This article examines the creation of an insert script in Oracle by making use of the substitution function in UNIX. Deepankar begins with a short introduction followed by the various parameters of the function. The author provides a detailed analysis of the code along with relevant screenshots.
Deepankar Sarangi
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