Month: July 2009

Justice Gray recently blogged about his concern of lack of SOLID coverage at TechDays despite how Joey Devilla blogged about SOLID principles (and then went on to say that “Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe” SOLID would be covered in the TechDays Canada tracks this year).  Joey Devilla retorted with an open letter. Justice’s concerns are well founded; TechDays is a “showcase current Microsoft tools and technologies” and that’s primarily what it does.  Most sessions cover how to use Microsoft tools and technologies.  But, most sessions don’t do it in a way that exemplifies what many consider fundamentals.  Most sessions cover using Microsoft technologies procedurally. … Continue reading Why Fundamentals are Important to Microsoft’s Bottom-line

My post on Thread.Sleep was a slight generalization.  I say that Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly design program because *usually* when Thread.Sleep is used it used for timing and not used for what it’s can safely be used for. Using Thread.Sleep with a timeout other than 1 usually means the developer doesn’t understand what Thread.Sleep does.  A value other than one means the system might pause the thread for that number of milliseconds.  In reality it might be less than the requested milliseconds and in all likelihood it will be more–potentially much more. I won’t get back into the … Continue reading Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly-designed program, redux