Category Archives: Coding

UI Control Naming Conventions

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Owen Pellegrin

Microsoft was kind enough to publish a set of design guidelines for developing class libraries, and I use the book Framework Design Guidelines that is based on them daily. This has settled many disputes over the conventions our team should … Continue reading →

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Documenting SyntaxHighlighter so they don’t have to

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Owen Pellegrin

I upgraded to the new SyntaxHighlighter today in preparation for a couple of posts that hopefully I’ll make by the end of the month. (Topics: explaining and condemning default instances (VB .NET “feature”), a neat discussion of SRP that was … Continue reading →

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Ordering of numeric conditional tests

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Owen Pellegrin

I’m reading Code Complete and something caught my eye in chapter 19. At first I wanted to argue with it, but the more I thought about it the more I liked it. The idea concerns the situation where you need … Continue reading →

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