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Comment on On New Year’s Resolutions by Brad

Brad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:18:59 +0000

Woo Themes also has some pretty nice ones. A lot of them are pay-only but theres a few cool free ones. I’m currenlty using “Rockstar” on my site. http://www.woothemes.com/

Comment on What does a software engineer do? by Brad

Brad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:17:09 +0000

Yeah, I’ve had a lot of people ask me “So like, what do you actually DO?” upon my telling them that I’m a software programmer. However, the problem for me is usually that their eyes generally glaze over with disinterest pretty much immediately upon asking that question, despite the fact that my answer is usually something like “You know how there programs on your computer? Somebody made those. That’s what I do.”

Comment on On New Year’s Resolutions by Brad

Brad — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:47:34 +0000

There’s a lot of nice Wordpress themes out there. Recently I found Graph Paper Press ( http://graphpaperpress.com/category/themes/ ) which has some really nice ones. They make you register, but you can get a lot of them for free.

As far as making it easier to get from the homepage to the blog, that’s just a matter of having more obvious page navigation in your template.

I should blog more frequently too, for me it’s mostly just a matter of having something to write about that I feel hasn’t been done a million times already.

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by showers

showers — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:23:22 +0000

This is such an interesting thoughtful post. Do you have anymore like this?

Comment on I Joined a Project for Fun by Brad

Brad — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:43:27 +0000

Update your blog, man!

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:06:53 +0000

I’m so glad I found this site…Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks,

A definite great read…:)

-Bill-Bartmann

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by AZ

AZ — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:25:46 +0000

This made me remember what we once used for a school project that had like zillion controls and the requirements were changing every period.

We decided to prefix each control with one of the following:
ic for input control, oc for output control and dc for display control. Of course, this ends up to be Hungarian notation too. Tho, one can always suffix InputControl, OutputControl and DisplayControl.

Comment on UI Control Naming Conventions by Brad Westness

Brad Westness — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:59:15 +0000

I usually stick with the suffix notation with camel casing. The result is that a lot of my control names are pretty unwieldy, but I think it’s the most self-commenting method of naming controls.

However, it is brittle, as you said, changing from stateTextBox to stateComboBox requires searching for every instance of the control.

Maybe naming it something like stateInput or stateInputControl (or whatever) would eliminate the confusion inherent in just calling it “state” but still allow the control type to be changed without breaking everything.

Comment on Documenting SyntaxHighlighter so they don’t have to by Brad Westness

Brad Westness — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:48:55 +0000

Good post. I thought it seemed like a good idea to post things like this so that maybe some other lost soul in the future will have a useful search result when looking for documentation rather than a bunch of useless Yahoo Answers pages or whatever, so I made one too.

Comment on Documenting SyntaxHighlighter so they don’t have to by Documenting NoobSlide So They Don’t Have To – Brad Westness.com

Documenting NoobSlide So They Don’t Have To – Brad Westness.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:43:27 +0000

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