MSFT has announced plans to upgrade the .NET framework to 4.0 on the next major release, and in the same communiqué quietly slipped in some interesting news. The features previously relegated to the Visual Studio Database Professional SKU will be moved into other SKUs in the 2010 release of Visual Studio. This is an interesting […]
Read MoreWhen I heard Uncle Bob?s keynote address at the Agile conference in Toronto this year, I just knew he had to come on the show. Lucky for all of us, he agreed! Given that the title of Uncle Bob?s latest book is Clean Code, the Elegant Code Cast was a perfect fit. This is a […]
Read MoreWhen Generics was first released in .Net 2.0, I was kind of surprised how few built in generic types there were. A List, a dictionary, a event handler; but not much beyond that. Nothing like what you see with C++ STL, ATL, or WTL. (turns out there are some reasons for that, C++ Templates can […]
Read MoreThere’s been quite a bit if debate recently about the high barrier of entry that exists for TDD. I don’t disagree that there’s a lot to know to do it well but I don’t think that this should stop people from just jumping in there and doing it. I’ve been writing code on and off […]
Read MoreI often have opportunities to work with organizations in transition to Team Foundation Server for their source control solution. Most large organizations (and many smaller ones) look for a migration route for their source code that allows them to retain history and their current merge/branching model. In heavily regulated environments, this is often a fundamental […]
Read MoreI’m having more and more mixed feelings about properties in .NET, or accessor methods in general, as properties compile to get_xxx/set_xxx methods behind the covers. I’ve never thought about it that much, but now they seem to have become a warning flag of bad design. Everyone knows by now that public fields are evil. I’m […]
Read MoreIf you aren’t familiar with the history of industry that includes the technologies that arose from Xerox PARC, you should be ashamed of yourself. These pioneers invented OOP, Ethernet, GUIs, multitasking, the mouse, and many other things over the course of a few short years. Even so, the value of these innovations was never realized […]
Read MoreI’ve actually been coding again recently which has been a pleasant change. Of course it’s pretty much impossible to balance this with my wider responsibilities of running operations but that’s another story…or perhaps more accurately another post. Over the past year I’ve become a huge fan of the DTO / Presentation Model approach for screens. […]
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