A colleague said last week that bullet lists are the "bane of business communication" and attributed billions of dollars of damage to them. He's a good writer and a thoughtful guy. His prose is better than most and includes a lot of information that he feels the reader needs to know. I see his point. … Continue reading Is Bulleted Text the downfall of communication?
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Programming Zealots
I was reading a blog post the other day -- well, it was more of a rant, actually -- about the evils of using regions in your .NET code. The guy had joined a team that used regions as one of their programming conventions, and he refused (rudely, I thought) to abide by the team's … Continue reading Programming Zealots
Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Final Word?
I've done some more thinking about whether or not to use 3rd-party controls (see my original post, and this follow up) and I believe I have some "rules of thumb" that make sense now. My re-evaluation of my position on this has come because the EntitySpaces team announced that they would no longer continue the … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Final Word?
Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Follow-Up
The very next day after I wrote my original post on using 3rd-party controls, the EntitySpaces team announced that they would no longer continue the framework and would make it open source by the end of 2012. Yikes! Now what? I have 2 choices - do nothing with my existing code and continue to use … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Follow-Up
Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks?
When you first start programming in a language, be it .NET, PHP, JAVA, or whatever, you tend to stick with the built in functions and controls. This makes sense, because you are learning how it works, what its strengths are, and where its limitations will trip you up. But every programmer at some point will … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks?
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