I first saw Billy Hollis‘ Dirty Checker Control at VS Live in Las Vegas about a year ago. Once in a while I run across a dead simple tool that just makes coding simpler and this is definitely one of those controls. I have used to on most Win Forms apps that I have built […]
Read MoreTechnology is great. For instance, this little device, the Dog Dazer. My next door neighbor did the great favor of building their dog kennel next to my garage and driveway so that each time I exit my home, their untrained Labrador barks his head off at me (not to mention my children). This has become […]
Read MoreThis is quite simply marketing genius. 400 reasons why VS 2005 rocks. 16 of them with an accompanying video. http://www.400plusdifferences.com Why can’t this be my job?
Read MoreWho knew? Channel 9 finally turned into something cool. Here is the magic page: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/ This page lists video and pod casts that recure regularly and actually have a schedule. Video casting may finally be worth something. I am subscribed to several of thm as of now, although I haven’t listened to anything yet. More […]
Read MoreIntuitively, we all know that our physical workspace affects our productivity and effectiveness. If you had square footage, permission, time, and a budget, what sort of physical space would you build for your software development team? My team will soon be given a unique opportunity to define our physical workspace to best suit our Agile […]
Read MoreToday was amazing. The Code Camp experience was like nothing else I have ever attended. This was a cross between a Fawcette conference, a user group meeting, and a brown bag lunch training session. The quality of presentations was amazingly high and I definitely learned some things today. I particularly enjoyed Martin Danner‘s Software Factories […]
Read MoreTonight I attended the Boise Code Camp speaker’s dinner and I really would like to thank Cory Isakson and Jim McKeeth in particular for leading the charge to bring this event togather. It will be an honor to participate. See you tomorrow.
Read MoreI am writing an application that needs to run in both a Windows forms mode and in a console application mode for scriptable operations. This is a reasonably common requirement form utilitarian applications like zip utils, installers, and other types of things. Indeed, one common way to get code under automated regression test is to […]
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