Michael Flanakin

Ever since I first saw shelving in the new version of Visual Source Safe, I've been somewhat enthralled by it. The first thing I did was figure out how I…

After having this problem several times and continually forgetting the fix, I figured I'd go ahead and make a post about it. Hopefully, it'll save someone…

Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache.

In Progress Here we go again... I've done random searches for UML tools before, but this time, I figured I'd go ahead and document it. I probably won't…

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Here's my review of known Subversion web-based access tools. If you notice any discrepancies, please let me know. Thanks!

Subversion Welcome to my adventures in Subversion. This is part one of a pretty good-sized project that will integrate a lot of open source tools. Right…

Log4Net is Crap4Crap Yeah, that's kind of harsh, but it's how I feel after spending the past 4 hours trying to get the ADONetAppender to work.

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After endless searching for answers to my handler setup questions, I finally decided to write an all-inclusive set of articles about how someone should go…

Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object So, I'm about to create my data access layer... \flashback sequence begins\ ...and I reach for my Patterns of…

Implementing the Front Controller Pattern (1.0) Don't you hate it when you can't find an answer to your problems after searching Google? I know I do. I've…

Does anyone know of any good open source UML tools? I've only used 4 UML tools: IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational XDE, Microsoft Visio, and Sparx Systems…