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re: Internal Software Development

Poo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:39:22 GMT

Vijay's on the money, who you doing Vij?

I struck the same thing at the mill, started stressing myself out having to sort all the middle managers requests out.

The solution was to go over their heads and give the list to Peakey with a large black texta, they can't question their order in the list then.

The senior management get paid to worry about the direction of the company, we're just a tool they can use to help with that direction.

With that I do try and share the IT love around by doing at least one half decent job for each department within a given year.

re: Internal Software Development

Vj — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:32:04 GMT

Hang a list of projects you guys are working on, with their expected release date on your office door (or your SharePoint site) to discourage middle managers from thinking their project is the most important!

Event better setup a process for requesting projects from the IT department. Let the top manager decide on projects to pick (Ask someone else to make the business decisions)!

Working for client projects sucks too. I have to time all the work I do so we can invoice the client.

I don't feel like I take ownership of the work at all. The team leader manages our time and we could be thrown at any project or multiple projects anytime or taken off it anytime.

They keep me busy though! Seems like time runs quick.

re: Internal Software Development

Andrew Tobin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:33:34 GMT

If it helps, you say "no" to me all the time.

The problem is, we need to get everyone re-neducated - Like we've talked about in the past week or two, they feel like overnight they've lost their development staff because they don't have someone permanantly onsite working on their projects 100% of the time.

That attitude has to change.

Make it so!

re: Graffiti Progress

Dave Burke — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:12:19 GMT

You're right, I'm sure. I was less responsible than you.

re: Graffiti Progress

mabster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:56:17 GMT

Thanks for the advice Dave!

I did manage to get redirection working using the open source urlrewriter.net, so I'll probably start using that shortly after moving everything across.

I'm sure that Google will catch up, but I still feel for the folks out there with links in forum posts or blog comments (some made by me, others by folks who have found the answer they needed here). I know how much it sucks when you find a dead link, so if I can do something to alleviate that pain I will.

re: Graffiti Progress

Dave Burke — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:04:55 GMT

Mab, The trick on redirecting old posts is to not worry about it. :-) I need to blog about my recent move from CS to BE.net. I made sure I had updated my robots.txt, created a home-brewed sitemap, and a custom catch-all error page. I'm pretty pleased how quickly the Google index seemed to catch up with the new BE.net urls. While on the subject, I personally think keeping everything with you in one location is the way to go.

Best,

Dave

re: Switching to FeedBurner

mabster — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:08:11 GMT

Hey MJ,

Yeah, me neither. I only noticed when I saw the adsense integration on Feedburner's website. Very interesting!

re: Switching to FeedBurner

MJ — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:50:40 GMT

Done.

BTW, I had no idea that feedburner had been acquired by the big G!

re: My Laser Vision Correction

kooka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:55:50 GMT

You probably should go back for the routine 2 yearly eye exam even if everything is fine.

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows

Kilik — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:00:03 GMT

This is a sweet one. Implemented it for my application and it works like a dream. Thanks!!!

re: My Laser Vision Correction

mabster — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:23:11 GMT

No complaints! Four years later and my vision is still perfect (as far as I'm concerned anyway - I haven't been back to the optometrist at all).

re: My Laser Vision Correction

Olivereindeer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:11:36 GMT

Hey,

How are you eyes now?

Just interested!

Thinking about Lasik - not sure yet.

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows Faster

FelixPerro — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:09:44 GMT

Thanks for the follow-up comparisons. I was using the previous method in VB.NET fine but hadn't quite reached a point where speed was an issue.

Oddly, I couldn't find anything on the MSDN site mentioning this!

Thanks again because typed Datasets are much easier to work with.

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows

mabster — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:51:18 GMT

That would be an awesome trick, Paulo, but then I kind of like the control you have when you use partial classes. If you know (or discover) how to create custom code-generators like you describe then please post about it and I'll link to you!

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows

Paulo — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:03:30 GMT

What about extending the code generation in a custom tool?.

BR,

(paulovila@gmail.com)

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows

euan — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:29:57 GMT

How weird. I am learning strongly typed dataset and I did a google search and what do you know? I get sent back to Mabster!

re: My Laser Vision Correction

Laser Vision Correction — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:20:59 GMT

Great to hear everything went well! It's a great procedure.

re: Saving DataSets Locally With Compression

mabster — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:37:44 GMT

I haven't tried that, Fregate. Although ... working with business objects like "Customer" is a different case to simple DataSet serialization like I'm doing in this article, isn't it?

re: Saving DataSets Locally With Compression

Fregate — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 05:02:02 GMT

Mate,

Did you try to pre-load an XML schema to speed up XML Serialization with

Type[] myTypes = new Type[] {Type.GetType("Customer") };
XMLSerializer.FromTypes(myTypes);

on OnApplicationStart in ASP.NET or in Start method for Web Forms?

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows Faster

Janez — Thu, 25 May 2006 08:38:27 GMT

And I had to read it twice. :)
I tinkered with my typed DataSet in VS and when I recompiled the overloaded method was gone. Oh, well, I needed a backup remainder anyway. :)

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows Faster

mabster — Mon, 22 May 2006 10:48:56 GMT

Someone actually reads these articles? :)

re: Extending Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows Faster

Janez — Mon, 22 May 2006 10:13:26 GMT

Nice followup to a nice article. It helped me solve my problem. Thanks.

Another article - Sorting Child Rows Faster

Mabsterama — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:58:28 GMT

Turns out my original method for sorting child rows in a strongly typed DataSet was much slower than...

Another article - Sorting Child Rows Faster

Mabsterama — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:58:28 GMT

Turns out my original method for sorting child rows in a strongly typed DataSet was much slower than...

Extending Strongly Typed DataSets - Sorting Child Rows Faster

Mabsterama — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:57:12 GMT

My earlier article on sorting child rows introduced a new method to the DataRow classes in a strongly...