Category Archive: Dmitry Vorobyev

I’m glad to report that one of the numbers published by Roman in his recent post is now out of date. I’m talking of the Aspose.Words RTF export speed. We wanted to optimize the export before v4.0 final is released and … Continue reading →

What class design do you prefer? I assume most of you follow Microsoft guidelines, and it’s reasonable. However, practice shows that not all the recommendations should be blindly obeyed. I don’t imply here fundamental rules like “never make instance fields public” … Continue reading →

After posting my first impression about Nemerle I noticed that I had been criticized by some community members for my superficial knowledge of the language and related concepts. I like constructive criticism and I do accept it; so I’m thankful … Continue reading →

So we have almost finished another major release of Aspose.Words. We’re happy to note how greatly the component evolves and improves despite it’s still pretty young by the standards of software industry. It’s less than 3 years old but it’s … Continue reading →

Nemmerle is the name of a mage from Ursula K. Le Guin’s book “A Wizard of Earthsea”. I don’t know whether it’s a fairy trick of his but Nemerle now seems to be one of the most popular among the … Continue reading →

Just have eliminated a bug (I think it’s a bug indeed!) that was really hard to pinpoint. After doing a fresh checkout I added some new code, built the solution and ran NUnit as usual. It amazed me that no code changes … Continue reading →

I’m sure there are a number of funny “guides” for programmers over the Web – collections of derisive rules that should NEVER be followed. At least I’ve seen a pretty comprehensive guide that shows how to write unmaintainable code in Java. … Continue reading →

While many of you haven’t yet migrated to .NET Framework 2.0 due to corporate policy or other reasons (this was shown by a poll we recently conducted on the forums), MS surprised all of us. (Drumroll, please) Meet .NET Framework … Continue reading →

Just decided to share some small but annoying issues I recently faced on my system as well as the probable ways to resolve. They have to do with several tiny little Microsoft products like Windows XP and its components, Word 2003, and Visual … Continue reading →

If you are not aware of this feature, type the following text in a Word document: =rand() and hit Enter. Are you surprised? This is not a bug but an undocumented (in the online Help) Word function intended to insert some dummy … Continue reading →