Gordon’s Place

This is better. As soon as I’ve allowed myself to post something trivial, then there are a whole lot of things that I’d like to say spring to mind. Here’s one.

I’ve been working on a couple of projects recently in which I’ve made use of an xUnit style framework for unit tests. Both of the [...]

Great idea, would be really, really useful if it contained some Progress code. Then I could ego search .

I can’t mention any specifics ‘cause I haven’t checked with the clients whether they would mind or not, but there’s just been an advert on the TV for a web app which I developed the HTML front end for. It was a while ago and the system has moved on a fair bit since, so [...]

My favourite thing about the new PSDN site – it’s got an RSS feed of all the new documents posted in the library.

I’ve downloaded the lastest, open beta of IE 7 to mess around with and it seems that the IE team have learned a thing or two from Firefox’s success. In particular, they’ve developed a remarkably familiar looking search box at the top of the screen, next to the address box. I use that box a [...]

I’ve been meaning wrap this up and post it for a while, so here goes. It’s a very simple window which will let you capture a signature using the MS Tablet PC SDK. This code should run on any tablet PC, but you can also run it on a plain XP machine as long as [...]

I’ve pointed this out to a couple of people over the last week, so I though I’d try and double that number by posting about it. If you need to search through progress code, or for that matter any text file, on an XP box then you should investigate findstr. It’s virtually a grep [...]

Jeff Ledbetter from Tugboat Software sent me a screengrab of Roundtable running under Eclipse, which would appear to be bringing source code management, impact analysis and configuration management into the IDE. See for yourself how cool it looks. I’m excited about the time when I don’t have to quickly minimize my IDE when an MS [...]

The presentations from this year’s Exchange event are on-line and freely available. There’s loads of good stuff there if you can spend some time digging through the powerpoints. Two, in particular, give some sneak peaks into what’s coming along with the next, Eclipse based version of the IDE. I’ve grabbed some of the screenshots out [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about architectural layers recently. The purpose of the separate layers in an enterprise architecture is pretty well understood – to isolate the layer above from the layer below. So the UI knows about nothing below the Business Logic ( BL ) layer and the BL knows nothing about [...]