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  1. Answer: read slashdot for long enough by plcurechax · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project?

    See: Working Effectively with Legacy Code book review (2008) for a book of that title by Michael Feathers (PDF article) on that very topic.

    There is even a summary of key points at Programmers @ StackExchange. Hundreds if not thousands of programmer's blogs address this very topic.

    You're welcome. Now get back to work.

  2. Re:LINQ does not sound like craziness by WED+Fan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Programming .NET 3.5

    I use LINQ almost exclusively in two ways...

    Sorry to tell you this, but LINQ has run almost to the end of its short life. Turns out the ADO.NET folks are going to kill it off. They like EntityFramework better.

    LINQ was good at a few things, and a LINQ to Objects/SharePoint/etc. that was fully matured would have been nice. But, it won't get there now.

  3. Re:Where did they get these numbers? by symbolset · · Score: 1 · on 40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days

    The Inquirer has an article about this.

    Is it a commercial success? We shall see. The ME II tag looks like it's beginning to stick. Another new client OS in 2009 makes the comparison even more pointed. Testimonials like these can't help vista.

  4. Re:Where did they get these numbers? by symbolset · · Score: 1 · on 40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days

    The Inquirer has an article about this.

    Is it a commercial success? We shall see. The ME II tag looks like it's beginning to stick. Another new client OS in 2009 makes the comparison even more pointed. Testimonials like these can't help vista.

  5. Failed Miserably on Test-Driven Development by under_score · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Inside Visual Studio 2005 Team System

    Check out Microsoft Takes it on the Chin Over Test-Driven Development. For comparison, check out Wikipedia on Test-Driven Development. This is particularly ironic given the recent Slashdot article about Microsoft adopting Scrum, one of the agile methodologies which, along with Extreme Programming, is instrumental in promoting Test-Driven Development as a core software engineering practice. I've also got a very brief article on my blog about the Qualities of an Ideal Test.

  6. Re:Necessary evil... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE
    Nevermind sites like Hotmail, which deliver purposedly broken CSS if the browser detected is Opera - making the page look funny or disabling functionality like purging of the spam mail folder.

    As evil as MS is to Opera on ghey sites like Hotmail, they are even worse to Firefox. ASP.NET still recognizes FF as a down-level browser, but not Opera. And if you go to the recommended site in your Machine.Config to actually update it, the site has said "this file is currently under development" forever.

  7. Re:PDF is A-OK by jambarama · · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro'
    Acrobat is slow for one reason. Creeping featuritis. Nothing else, it is horrifically bloated. 7 is an improvement, but not muby. On the upside there are ways to speed Adobe Reader up without losing virtually any usability. XPDF and GhostVue seem to load them up pretty quick as well.

    On the other hand OpenOffice 2.0 will (the beta already does) support making any file (ppt, doc, etc) into a multipage pdf or a swf file (slides advance with each click.

  8. Re:If only it was as good as Mozilla. by ssj_195 · · Score: 1 · on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated?
    The tiny google search box on the top right is nowhere near big enough.
    Then make it bigger!

    http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive /2004/09/29/27160.aspx

  9. Re:works well by alder · · Score: 1 · on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux
    There's a windows program for the windows reader that lets you turn off all kinds of goodies...
    You do not need a program for that - just move everything, but Search.api and Search5.api out of plug_ins folder into optional folder and enjoy pure reader ;-) More info can be found here and plug in descriptions here.
  10. Re:I'll get it now by alder · · Score: 2, Informative · on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux
    Bloated programs use more system memory.
    There is a way to "shrink" Reader's memory usage. There was/is a recepe to make Reader 6 load faster. And though 7.0 is not very slow to start up, the same recepe is still useful to follow as most of plug-ins are not needed for each and every document you read. I found that keeping only EWH32.api, HLS.api, IA32.api, Search.api, and Search5.api in plug_ins gives me all the functionality I ever wanted from the Reader, yet keeps almost 30M of other stuff out of automatic preloading.
  11. Re:you can get acrobat reader 7 to load fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux

    This also applies to Acrobat Reader 7 - Instructions here.

  12. Re:Acrobat Reader by shawb · · Score: 4, Informative · on Adobe Unveils Open Source Library

    Thankfully, Acrobat is not a monolithic piece of crap. All the stuff that takes so long to run is extra plugins, and they can be disabled. There are even programs to do it automatically, but this is something that I would trust doing manually over some program. I mean, if I somehow mess up Acrobat removing some plugins, I reinstall Acrobat. If the program messes up the system, is loaded with spyware or whatever, then the whole OS might have to go.

  13. Speed up Firefox THE RIGHT WAY by TuringTest · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads

    Actually you'd be better off using this other article called Speed up Firefox the right way. The hack you linked to is not appropiate for everybody, and can even degrade performance.

  14. Speeding up Firefox the right way by IvyMike · · Score: 4, Informative · on Browser Speed Comparisons

    This has been popping up on del.icio.us/popular for a while now:

    Speeding up Firefox the right way.

    This page contains detailed tips about getting the fastest firefox experience, customized to different speed computers and network connections.