Sometimes we forget simplest and easiest parts when we are dealing with mega projects. These cheat sheets will help you remember all these tiny details in one sheet. Better take a landscape printout.
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
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Conding Standards
Anybody can write working code. But to write decent & elegant code, you need to follow some standard guidelines. Take a printout of this nice document and always remember these points while you are coding.
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FREE Development Tools from Microsoft
It has been years since MS released express editions. So if you still don't know what they are, you should be aware. They are light weight stripped down versions of Visual Studio & SQL Server. They are FREE (even for commercial purposes) and efficient. In fact, They are wonderful tools for software development. Reasons?
- FREE to download
- FREE to register (Even that's not mandatory)
- NO licensing restrictions (You can use your product for commercial purposes)
- Light weight setup (Download & Install only what you want to use. No load on machine. SQL Express lets you embed a database in your application)
There are some restrictions, but practically it doesn't affect much.
- You can use any database server (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) in web applications, but only SQL Express Database in windows applications. (Nobody uses windows applications now-a-days. However if you're actually using windows applicartion, then the most feasible database is embedded SQL Express itself, which is FREE, so no issues.)
- Maximum database size limit is 4GB. (Believe me, it's not only more than enough, it's too much. My clients are big corporations which pours thousands of records everyday. Still, after one year, the database size has reached only 200 MB. Many corporations either dump old data or change the application and/or database structure after 5 years. So once again, no issues)
So ultimately, I would say, development is FREE! (And that too with MICROSOFT!)
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