http://blog.nkadesign.com Just another programming weblog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:52:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/wpf-and-silverlight-it-will-take-a-while/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/wpf-and-silverlight-it-will-take-a-while/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:45:07 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/wpf-and-silverlight-it-will-take-a-while/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/wpf-and-silverlight-it-will-take-a-while/feed/ 2 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/people-mind-your-dates-plz/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/people-mind-your-dates-plz/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:34:46 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/people-mind-your-dates-plz/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/people-mind-your-dates-plz/feed/ 5 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/thank-you-spammers/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/thank-you-spammers/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 06:06:48 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/thank-you-spammers/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2007/thank-you-spammers/feed/ 2 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/chosing-a-development-platform/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/chosing-a-development-platform/#comments Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:39:54 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=33 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/chosing-a-development-platform/feed/ 0 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/the-importance-of-conditions-of-sales/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/the-importance-of-conditions-of-sales/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:00:59 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=26 In a past life, working as a project manager for a manufacturer of railway equipment, I had to deal with detailed specifications and conditions of contract that would be big thick documents of hundred of pages each.]]> http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/the-importance-of-conditions-of-sales/feed/ 2 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/you-arent-gonna-need-it/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/you-arent-gonna-need-it/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:00:03 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=14 Refactoring code is a necessary thing. Unless you work in some very specific environment where casual refactoring is not allowed (like in some safety-critical applications where the most minute change has to be pondered upon by teams and committees for weeks), you cannot code perfectly on the first shot. More often, you end-up reviewing code and making it clearer, merging parts that are too similar, removing what turned out not to be useful, cleaning up the names, moving things around, etc... there are dozen of refactoring cases that usually help remove the stink out of it.]]> http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/you-arent-gonna-need-it/feed/ 0 http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/ie7-wont-work-with-all-sites/ http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/ie7-wont-work-with-all-sites/#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 01:00:42 +0000 Renaud http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=12 I installed a beta of IE7 last week and was quite pleased at the new interface and tabbed browsing, which has been available to Opera and Mozilla used and many other browsers for years. However, looking good and being slick and more standard-compliant hasn't been enough to keep it on my machines.]]> http://blog.nkadesign.com/2006/ie7-wont-work-with-all-sites/feed/ 0