This is Jason masquerading as a guest. I really should post more often… I spent the best part of a day banging my head against the wall with this problem and I thought that I’d share the solution that I came up with. I’m sure that there’s a better way to do this and if […]
Read MoreAyende blogged about this web site which you can use to analyze the text on your blog (and those of others). It makes some guesses about the personality of the person(s) that write on the particular blog. Turns out that both my personal blog and ElegantCode yields the same results: INTJ – The Scientists The […]
Read MoreJust read the following post on the performance of try/catch and throwing exceptions. In the author’s small (and completely unrepresentative of real-world scenarios) performance tests, it showed that throwing exceptions is a quite costly operation. Ah… if only it were that simple. Throwing an exception is indeed a costly operation, compared to most other statements. […]
Read MoreI find that when you’re really good at something, when you totally grok it, you often forget the complexity of that thing. This includes an entire spectrum of things, from reading English to riding a bike, writing code to making Rice Crispy treats. When we truly get it, it changes the nature of the task. […]
Read MoreAs Jarod Ferguson already mentioned, I am now part of the Elegant Code team. I must say it is an honor to be invited to join this community and I am very excited about this opportunity. I will still cross-post on my own blog as well as here on elegantcode.com. I am a pretty easy […]
Read MoreHere’s the situation: a couple of months ago we started developing according to a new architecture. Obviously, you need infrastructure code for this. For the first project, we just put the infrastructure code into the project’s solution and everything was easy. We could make changes as we needed them, and it enabled us to ‘grow’ […]
Read MoreI am happy to announce Ryan Kelley as a member of the EC group. I had the pleasure of meeting Ryan at the Kaizen conference last month in Austin Tx, where he convened a session on Lean/Kanban in small teams. Ryan is an active member of the .Net community, frequent blogger, and has some great […]
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