Jean Hibbert's Blog

Work in progress...

jean — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:46:00 GMT

Wow! Finally... I've returned from the dark side... and although I am wiser I have yet to fully recover from my battle with the demon of the deep. (Just like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings). As a ninja programmer I now wear a white belt rather than...(read more)

Software Tools

jean — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:14:00 GMT

Power commands for VS2008 Useful commands for the VS2008 IDE. Ghost Doc Useful for auto documenting your code. TestDriven.net 2 [Not really necessary if you have the VS2008 Test Suite] Subsonic 3 : ORM A good ORM to get a project up and running quickly...(read more)

Jean Hibbert's Terminator Salvation.

jean — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:01:00 GMT

Terminator Salvation (Alpha Version) - a Story by Jean Hibbert. Some of the ideas have been stolen from the movie, and most of the scenes in the movie can be re-used on my take of Terminator Salvation. The reason I have re-written the story is because...(read more)

Dynamically loading assemblies for reflection without locking the files.

jean — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

I was recently asked to write a class which dynamically loaded assemblies, and perform reflection on them, without permanently loading the files into the application domain and without locking the files. Unfortunately, and surprisingly the Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom...(read more)

Terminator Salvation : Understanding the human conciousness.

jean — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:52:00 GMT

"I think therefore I am". Or am I? Does the fact that I am concious and have some kind of "experience" of what is around me, mean that I actually exist? A robot can have an "experience", but at what point would you say the...(read more)

Why Windows Sucks

jean — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:32:00 GMT

I've been working with Microsoft "Technologies" now for over 10 years, and the idea of moving over to Apple OS / Java has crossed my mind quite a few times. During those times I felt that if I managed to escape the Windows environment the...(read more)

Maintaining Consistency

jean — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:19:00 GMT

Another long awaited, highly anticipated blog post. I realised something yesterday evening while I sat on the bicycle machine at gym preparing myself for the mental trauma of forcing myself through an hour and a half of mindless weight pushing ... I realised...(read more)

Write your own web server in less than 40 lines

jean — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:01:00 GMT

I've recently been toying with the System.Net.Sockets namespace... and this is how easy it is to write your own web server: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.IO; using System.Net.Sockets;...(read more)

Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 5

jean — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:11:00 GMT

1. John De Vos, David Hill & Ajoy Krishnamoorthy - P&P Looking ahead : These guys are the P&P architects and they wanted to know how we felt about the current set of Enterprise Library tools. They also did a bit of horn blowing by providing...(read more)

Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 4

jean — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:34:00 GMT

1. Keynote - David Treadwell: This talk focused on cloud computing and David gave a demonsration of the how a "mesh" application would work. 2. David Hill & Kyle Huntley - Composition and presentation patterns : What a brilliant talk! David...(read more)

Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 3

jean — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:04:00 GMT

1. Keynote - Pat Helland : Pat gave a brilliant speech on the energy consumption of data centers. He gave us insight into the setup of Microsofts data centers and the strategies Microsoft use to conserve energy and keep costs low. This was an unexpected...(read more)

Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 2

jean — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:51:00 GMT

1. Keynote - Kent Beck : - This guy is the father of XP programming. The talk he gave was about the philosopy behind problem solving, and a few key techniques we can use to tackle problems. They were. a) Have the guts to make the LEAP sometimes. b) Somtimes...(read more)

Patterns and Practices Summit 2008 - Day 1

jean — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:30:00 GMT

1. Keynot Jeff Teper - This guy did an overview of sharepoint and the future of the product. 2. Functional programming - Erik Meijer : I've been looking forward to this talk for a while. Erik M. is one of the architects that works with Anders H. Erik...(read more)

Seattle Day 1 - Sunday

jean — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:19:00 GMT

The jet lag was pretty rough.... I still find myself waking up at wierd hours of the night and checking the time. I also have a lot on my mind at the moment, and am looking forward to the conference which kicks off in 1 hour. This blog post is about yesterday...(read more)

Patterns & Practices Summit 2008

jean — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:02:00 GMT

I will be attending the Patterns and Practices summit 2008, which starts next week. A list of speakers http://www.pnpsummit.com/west2008/west2008.aspx General topics http://www.pnpsummit.com/West2008/west2008sessions.aspx I attended the 2005 patterns...(read more)