A lot of developers deal with performance differently. Some care too much, trying to optimize every single piece of code they write. Some care too little, not thinking about performance at all until it is proven to be a problem. I think both of these approaches suck and usually try to find a healthy balance […]
Read MoreThis time, Sebastien Lambla will enlighten us with a talk about REST and the OpenRasta framework. Again, every geek on this planet is free to attend. Here are the details: Start Time: Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009 07:00 PM GMT End Time: Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009 09:00 PM GMT Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting) Colin and […]
Read MoreIn all cases of using a unit test framework, no matter the intent of the test methods, one thing is certainly true: Assertions are being fired. When we Assert with a unit testing framework before the software we are writing passes the assertion, this shapes the form and functionality of the software we are building. […]
Read MoreGreg Young did a great job during the first European VAN, talking about Domain-Driven Design and messaging. If you missed it, you can now watch the recording. Greg Young on DDD @ E-VAN 09 Feb 2009 Colin and myself will be posting the details for the next E-VAN meeting soon.
Read MoreWarning: this is not a programmer post. I had a little bit of text that I wanted to spell check. I am a particularly bad speller, bad enough that FireFox’s built in spell check is rarely helpful enough, as is Google. My tool of spell checking choice is Microsoft Word. So I put the paragraph […]
Read MoreIf you’ve done any serious Web Forms development you have almost definitely run into issues with the HTML that is generated. There’s a bunch of options for cleaning this up but one of the simplest is to use JQuery (or I suppose even pure JS if you are a masochist) to remove the offending elements […]
Read MoreIn case any of you read my initial post comparing various IoC libraries, I had some less than flattering words about Castle Windsor in my mass review of IoC libraries. Naturally the Windsor crowd thought I was nuts. So I went back and took another look at Windsor to see if I had missed something […]
Read MoreMy organization just released V1 of our new procurement system. The product is quite massive and we still have a long ways to go, but it feels great to have a working solution end-to-end in production. The actual development time was 33 2 week sprints. We started out with a small team of 5 people, […]
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