Nov 202012
 
 November 20, 2012  Posted by at 11:42 pm 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog No Responses »
Stupid Question 88: How do I ignore certain warnings in code when I’ve set treat all warnings as errors?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] There might be times when you want to ignore warnings, sometimes all in a piece of code, sometimes [...]

Nov 192012
 
 November 19, 2012  Posted by at 11:16 pm 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog 2 Responses »
Stupid Question 87: Warning levels, what are they, which level to use, and should they be treated as errors?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] I don’t quite remember which blog post it was, or what the exact comment was, but a friend [...]

Nov 162012
 
 November 16, 2012  Posted by at 1:16 pm 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog 2 Responses »
Stupid Question 83: What does the HTML5 Command tag do, and is this similar to commands in XAML?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] When working with XAML technologies you have something called ‘Commands’ – basically this is a way to have [...]

Nov 142012
 
 November 14, 2012  Posted by at 11:33 pm 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog 14 Responses »
Stupid Question 82: What does x86 stand for? And why do we use x86 to represent 32-bit?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] I was honestly thought everybody knew the answer to this one except me, but secretly I really wanted [...]

Nov 142012
 
WinRT app guide: Step 15: Exporting data as a text file

To read the other steps in the step by step guide for creating a Metro/ WinRT application go here Welcome We are currently at step 15 in our step by step guide for creating a Windows Store Application- if this is the first post you’ve seen in this series I would recommend that you have [...]

Nov 132012
 
 November 13, 2012  Posted by at 10:48 pm 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog 3 Responses »
Stupid Question 81: Why did Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky quit?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] On Monday Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofsky quit, after 23 years. I was very surprised, not just because [...]

Nov 122012
 
 November 12, 2012  Posted by at 11:30 am 365 Stupid Questions, Iris' blog 10 Responses »
Stupid Question 80: Do you have to have an open source project to be taken serious as a programmer?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a 'stupid' questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer] I’ve had this question on my mind a while, as I’ve heard quite a few times that all [...]