I came across this post “It’s Official: Vista Sucks” and I have to agree. I bought a laptop last December. Leary that it came with Vista installed I figured if it’s too slow I could always wipe the hard drive and install XP. Even still, since it was to be my first hands on experience with Vista, I was anxious to see what it was like. It does look nice, but man is it slow and a bit of a pain to figure out where things are located being so accustomed to XP. [Read more →]
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When I first began usign Visual Studio 2008 it was excrutiatingly slow at saving changes, switching between tabbed files, and switching focus from another program to Visual Studio 2008. To make matters worse, any one of these tasks and a few others would cause Visual Studio 2008 to crash. [Read more →]
As an experienced software engineer, I’ve developed an axiom that I never trust code written by a developer that can’t even spell his/her comments correctly. I mean, if he/she has mistakes in his/her comments, why should I not expect the same for his/her code? Sure the compiler will catch most mistakes, but what if he/she misspelled the intended function name and the resultant misspelling is a valid function name. The same goes for variables. Essentially, software development is 100% about paying attention to details. If the developer can’t get the comments right, it makes me wonder, “what else is not right?” As I eluded to in the opening, experience has proven this out, as 9 times out of 10, when I have audited code with misspelled comments, the developers have turned out to be pretty lousy. [Read more →]
