Category Archives: General Coding

I Love Me Some Business Objects

Here is the beautiful stack of Business Object classes for my Line of Business CRUD app (see image below). The Job object (highlighted in the screenshot), in particular, is populated with tons of little worker methods to handle all the … Continue reading

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BarCamp Birmingham 5 Sessions

I attended BarCamp Birmingham 5 on Saturday, August 6. This was my first time attending an un-conference, also known as a “user conference”. In a BarCamp conference, the sessions are proposed on the morning of the conference by attendees who … Continue reading

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Extracting Enum values from an assembly file using the Object Browser in FoxPro

Thanks to a helpful comment from Doug Hennig, I’ve learned how to use the Object Browser in Foxpro to extract Enum values from an assembly file right into a .h file inside of FoxPro.  By an “assembly”, I mean a … Continue reading

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WordPress is double awesome

I’ve just got say “WOW!” on this one… I recently wanted to add a blog to one of our corporate web sites so we could begin publishing a few articles about the equipment we manufacture in that division (heavy industrial … Continue reading

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Model, View Model, View – No way (for now)…

I get all the Model <—> ViewModel <—> View stuff.  It’s great theory, but come on! A View Model class that has the same exact properties as the stinkin’ Model that it is wrapping, just so we can say “I … Continue reading

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Adobe Acrobat PDF Printer output filename on 64-bit OS…

Now that I’ve moved over to Windows 7 64-bit on my primary workstation, I’m in a new world of IT support that I didn’t expect from those extra 32 bits of OS horsepower. My MicroTek scanner is not supported, my … Continue reading

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The color of your comments

Recently I had a thought that the comments in my code may be getting in the way of me actually seeing the code itself while I’m coding. There seems to be two camps in the code commenting world: (1) Write … Continue reading

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