December 2007 - Posts

• Is Discipline a dirty word?

  Jeff Atwood has stated “Nobody Cares What Your Code Looks Like“. If you read through the post and the comments you see a trend in the responses that appears to assume elegant / well written code and code that serves the end users are exclusive... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:10 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding

• Code Goulash

  Hungarian notation is the practice of naming a variable such that it’s name indicates it’s type. For example, intRows tells you that the Rows variable is expected to be an integer. This was very useful for NotePad coder’s, but nowadays... Posted Dec 17 2007, 09:03 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Coding

• dashCommerce 3.0 - Preliminary Overview

  Last time I mentioned the new provider model that will allow for separate assemblies to be used for payment, shipping, and tax providers. While I’m fully involved in writing 3.0, I figured I’d try to go over some of the other changes that... Posted Dec 13 2007, 09:23 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Open Source, dashCommerce

• Get out of my way!

  I use SVNRepository for my Subversion hosting. As a micro-ISV / contractor, I need access to my code wherever I go, so I needed it hosted and I needed it easy. I have an office downtown and I have an office in my house, and being able to periodically... Posted Dec 10 2007, 09:19 PM by Chris Cyvas Filed under: Open Source, dashCommerce