Out of the corner of my eye

Problem
Company A’s app uses the WebBrowser control to view web pages under its own control, and wants to tightly couple the web page presentation to its app’s look and feel.
User B sets his Internet Explorer accessibility options to “Ignore font sizes specified on web pages“.
As a result, you may get issues where text overflows fixed […]

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Damien Katz blogged some “signs you’re a crappy programmer (and don’t know it)”, and the article ended up on the front page of Digg. Many of the comments criticised some of what he said, but I didn’t anywhere find what I felt should be the strongest criticism of “You think no function/method should have multiple […]

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Lots of programmers seem to use protected as the default access level, and I think it’s lazy.
I can kind of see the reasoning: you don’t want to expose your variables and private methods because the user of your class probably won’t know what they should be changing and what should be left alone, but you […]

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