What Have I Learned Lately?

1 - We'll start with today. In reading an article on MSDN I discovered that sometimes those of us who think we know something like to use words that our readers might not. As is evident in the following statement, "The following definitions are more informative than they are normative..." And since I'm making fun, I'll leave out my learned colleague's name.

Normative: “adj 1: relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples" 2: giving directives or rules” - Dictionary.com

My guess, definition 2 is intended.

2 - It's better to use MicroStation's built in features whenever possible. I recommend investigating Batch Processor interface. This tool will find files in sub folders - check out what happens when you add a folder specification like this one, c:\myfolder\*\*.dgn

3 - Don't stray from your feature list without customer collaboration. Seems obvious, but just because a feature would be really cool doesn't mean you should unilaterally include it in the application.

4 - User commands, re-write.

5 - There are many readers of C-A-D with really nice things to say about my articles. Thank you to everyone who sent me emails.

I will try to post more often.