The Debug and Release Check Technique
July 26, 2003
Assertions are excellent at catching bugs during development. However, some checks need to be performed at runtime for production code as well. A good way to wrap the two is
Assertions are excellent at catching bugs during development. However, some checks need to be performed at runtime for production code as well. A good way to wrap the two is
Where possible, use interfaces (as opposed to interface-implementation classes) to increase your source code’s flexibility. If you later need to change an interface-implementation class (to improve performance, for example), it’s
File hierarchies are becoming more complex and file paths longer as the capacity of hard drives increases. There are still many occasions, however, when you can’t browse to identify a
The Windows Script Host (WSH) supports many useful features, including VBScript’s FileSystemObject object and the ability to drag and drop filenames. You can drag and drop a data files icon
he true raison d’The Dos and Don’ts of XMLXML is a universal format for transferring hierarchically organized data. When properly formatted, XML documents are readable, self-explanatory, and platform-independent. In practice,