Cognitive Coding

VS TFS extensibility – a custom changeset viewer

2008-04-09T16:35:00.003+05:30

I started working on a new project that uses Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for managing the entire project lifecycle (source control, bug tracking, reporting etc.). This is quite new to me and I tried to acquaint myself with the console commands to carry out the various source control operations. While doing so, I found that the command to view a change set is tf changeset #num. This

XML Cruncher

2008-03-12T22:23:00.001+05:30

Aligning with my previous post, I want to talk about removing the unnecessary flab from XML here. I work on a heavyweight web 2.0 app that does a lot of its HTML rendering by XSL transforms on the client. For this purpose, I had to push down the XSL and XML as JavaScript strings to the client. Now here is the problem: I had detailed comments in the XSL and XML which resulted in huge JavaScript

CSS Minifier : A simplified and performant version

2008-03-11T18:19:00.001+05:30

Today I happened to read about a CSS minimization solution here. While it does the job well, there is a big problem... the solution ends up creating way too many temporary strings. Given the fact that the input CSS string would be typically of the order of 10kb, avoiding the temporary strings would make a difference. I have been using a CSS minimizer in my project over a year now and thought

Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C#

2008-03-06T22:21:00.001+05:30

Today while browsing through new projects in codeplex I found this gem. I haven't seen it before and so felt that I should blog about it. Almost all of us would be aware of the singleton pattern and where it comes handy. While I love it and use it wherever applicable, there is also a bit of uneasiness when I had to implement the double locking syntax for each singleton class... I wondered

My previous blog

2008-03-06T15:56:00.001+05:30

Hi again, I would like to point to you my previous blog. It wasn't a very active one but contains a couple of interesting posts that might be worth your visit. Catch you again soon...

Hello World!

2008-03-05T21:05:00.002+05:30

Hey, thanks for visiting my blog. I'm a passionate software developer with a few years of experience in both client and server side programming. I'm starting this blog primarily to help myself to contemplate and consolidate on my thoughts and view points on anything related to computers. In the course of it, I hope to be of help to knowledge seekers like you. I plan to keep this blog active