Monthly Archives: January 2007

Generic Collections, LINQ, and the Indicies

Here is the situation.  You have a generic collection class that inherits from Collection, or some other base that allows the class to be a generic collection.  Furthermore, you are doing the equivalent of that in LINQ, with the idea that you intend to be able to quickly and efficiently do object based queries. Of [...]

More on Technical Mortgages and Sexy User Interfaces

Imagine – you are the CIO involved in a merger.  Your company has applications, and the company you are merging with has a similar set of applications.  And the due diligence team from Big 4 Corp that the Big Investment Banking Sachs hired to decide which IT functions are going to survive is showing up [...]

It’s all the Programmers Fault! A Post about Bad User Interfaces and How to Avoid Them.

Programmers to Blame for Hard To Use Software In one of the least informed articles of our young year, the author of the linked article asserts that programmers are to blame for software that is “hard to use”.  It starts out finding a problem with the following: “One of his peeves is when a text-editing [...]

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