I just opened my first project in Visual Studio 2008. I just started a console application to play around with. The UI has received a little attention. You can see by the gradient colors on this properties dialog menu that someone on the Visual Studio team finally called someone over from the User Experience Group. […]
Read MoreHave you ever actually watched the installer for Visual Studio? Take a look at this screen shot. What’s with the J. Crew model? Have you ever seen a developer that looks like this? Where’s the balding frumpiness of reality? Hell, this guy belongs in a Sears catalog. I could have a man crush here. OK, […]
Read MoreVisual Studio 2008 is up in MSDN. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
Read MoreAn estimated and prioritized backlog drives a reasonably dependable release plan. If you have an idea how long features will take to implement, you are able to project when major releases will be available to your clients. This relationship is natural and good. The rub problem lies in that some of the work in set […]
Read MoreLet me start with a warning. I really can’t recommend that you do what I am about to tell you. However the problems that led me to do something crazy are certainly worthy of discussion. And the solution that I employed itself is most definitely ‘interesting’ (that’s a euphemism) We refactored our application this week […]
Read MoreI had a requirement for a search page that allowed for CSV download.? My web site is built using SubSonic, so I had to recreate that age old code to turn a domain collection into a flat file export.?? First note: I wrote this in a couple of hours.? Most of the coding took 30 […]
Read MoreOne of the main things the Web Client Software Factory has done in their latest efforts is target "brownfield" development environments. Many members of the advisory board communicated the factory approach was just not an option, as they had an existing code base too large to refactor in order to adapt to the architecture guidance […]
Read MoreI’ve been reading Debugging .Net 2.0 Applications by John Robbins and just came across this great quote which is attributed to François Poulin: Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. There is a common thread to things that people have been saying in the Test Driven […]
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