Archive for June, 2007

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

How to Design Software With Bad Requirements

“I’m trying to write a DOS bat file that runs an Access macro to import a CSV output file from my COBOL program. Any help would be appreciated.” – Anonymous A short while ago I hired a stained glass artist to create a window for my back door. I told him I wanted something simple [...]

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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Programming: The Hero’s Journey

One of the things I do here, in addition to working on the Tools product is writing “advertorials” for it on codeproject.com. It’s something that I love to do. For the latest one, I thought that I’d drift a little from doing a straight ad to doing something that involved writing some add-in code for [...]

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