Last night the northern lights were out in full force.
Walked to the end of the deck and WOW !
We took some pictures but they didnt come out nearly as nicely as the ones my youngest took (like this)

Truly an awesome display

Code reuse is an admirable goal for any developer.

Being able to re-use well written well tested code is a good thing.

Especially if you can reuse it across multiple facets of one project, or across several projects.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people start out reusing code using copy paste from one place to another.… Read the rest

Some time ago Bob had said he would let the domain registration for BKeeney Briefs lapse. Today it finally came home to roost.

Trying to visit gets you one of several things.

What I got was a domain name squatter site trying to sell me the name.

Sad to see that finally happen but with Bob’s employment changing from contractor to full time employee its not surprising.… Read the rest

Was tracking down a bug in my app and couldnt figure out what was wrong initially.

All the code seemed right but setting a value to code like

value = string.ToInteger

seemed to be the culprit. Sure enough the string contained a value like 3.0e+2 (an integer expressed in exponential form) But the docs say

String.ToInteger

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If youre one of the people who didnt get the Xojo Experience survey there’s one thats a lot alike at INN

On the forums someone is looking for a way to identify what kind of file they are dealing with. And then a way to “sort” knowing those types.

The suggestion given is to look at each extension in a simple way

But, you can get away without ever having to look at the extension. Folderitem already assigns a TYPE IF there is a filetype defined that matches.… Read the rest

Ever think to yourself “Oh I have this project to do and I’ll just cut and paste the code from there and tweak it?” And now you have two copies that are a lot alike but maybe not exactly the same.

And then you do this over & over and now you have many copies of that code?… Read the rest

A long time ago I was in a BEd\Bsc program at University.

It was supposed to end with me having two degrees. One Degree in Education and one in Computer Science. But the two faculties couldn’t agree on the course of studies over 5 years. And when I got to year 5 it turned out both expected me to do at least one more full year in each faculty.… Read the rest

Sometimes you want classes to have a common API.

But rather than adding a common super class or interface to define that common API, you just make sure your classes have the same methods, events, properties & whatever else you feel is necessary to make them have “the same API”.

I would suggest you rethink doing this.… Read the rest

A lot of API 2 is extension methods that are replacements for the classic global framework methods.

String.LowerCase is for all intents and purposes the equivalent of Lowercase(string).

Except when its not.

If you happen to have methods that can return a wide variety of types you may not be able to use the extension methods.… Read the rest