Category Archives: Programming

kontron pitx-sp

Well, my Kontron pITX-SP 1.6GHz board finally came. This is the souped up version of the 1.1GHz board that I evaluated in February. This version in addition to being clocked 500MHz faster also features a bootable microSD socket, and two … Continue reading

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making it DRY-er

I am a huge fan of DRY (don’t repeat yourself). It has the obvious perk of making code easier to read and comprehend. There are also other benefits that are less obvious.

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the “empty” toolbox

If you wouldn’t trust a carpenter who did know what was in his toolbox work on your house, why do you let developers who don’t know what tools they have work on your code?

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project update

So, I’ve been running down the list of features that I want in my system backup application. I’ve decided that this is the must implement feature list: Full system backup (i.e. support bare metal restore) Hourly backups of changed files … Continue reading

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software project

Work has been keeping me ridiculously busy lately, but I’m starting to formulate plans for my next side project. I think I am going to develop a volume shadow copy backup system. The system will be similar to TimeMachine but … Continue reading

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C#

I have been playing with C# for the last few days and I am really starting to like it more. Implementing Singletons are so easy compared to some of the other languages. Additionally the runtime reflection that the .Net framework … Continue reading

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on multiple runtimes

When a DLL links against a different runtime library than your executable things are bound to go awry.

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