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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
I was going to do a big write-up of Microsoft Money Plus vs. Quicken 2008 as I've just tried both but no one wants to read a 10-page rant about the poor state of personal finance software in this day and age. It's now just a few paragraphs rant. Microsoft Money Plus There is nothing Plus about the latest offering from Microsoft. It's still not a real Vista application, it's slow, the main landing page flickers like a broken strobe and Microsoft seems content to let the world innovate around them. No features to get excited about and they've obviously decided
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Friday, August 17, 2007
My current favorite .NET DAL/ORM solution is SubSonic. It strikes a good balance of being helpful without hindering, partly due to it being heavily inspired by Rails as well as the creator's focus not only on good code but good architecture and design. Another great thing about the project is that the creator, Rob Conery, does frequent screencasts explaining the nooks and crannies of SubSonic as well as writing informative, engaging and colorful posts over on his blog. Enough praise though, this post is all about fixing an "issue" that annoys me. SubSonic does part of it's magic through the SubSonicService, which is
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Building projects has always been a pain in the arse. You want it to be simple, fast and easily reproducible, all of which are tenets of good continuous integration. When it comes to building a Delphi project I've tried a whole slew of things from batch files to the Ant-based Want to very slick IDE's like Automated Build Studio and FinalBuilder. I keep coming back to simple DOS-based apps though because in my ideal world a user should be able to do a clean checkout of your code and then be able to build. Currently I use Want, which