Okay, so I needed a very simple and clean loading animation for a multi threaded application I was working on to notify the user that something was in the process of being loaded. So of course the first place I looked was Google, because I figured someone else has already written one and I could […]
Read MoreI just finished reading Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. This book follows the same concept used by Martin Fowler and his marvelous PoEAA book, but obviously focused on integration patterns. Although the title is somewhat misleading, this book fully concentrates on message based architectures as opposed to other integration styles. […]
Read MoreMy wife and friends have been wondering what I’ve been doing up in my office at night and on the weekends. After several weeks (months, really) of getting this project off the ground, I am happy to finally share the result. Pluralsight On-Demand! now has the opening modules of our online course, Visual Studio Team […]
Read MoreA little while back a small debate has erupted over the if statement. There is even and anti-if campaign going on. If you read things wrong you would think that the ?if? needed to be banished from all languages. And since I had so much fun with my ?Refactoring a Switch statement? (and the rebuttal), […]
Read MoreSam Ramji and Peter Galli of Microsoft?s Platform Strategy Group visited with us about the company?s activities in open source software. This glimpse of Microsoft?s heavy involvement in the open source community may surprise you. Sam (Senior Director of Platform Strategy) explains that the open source community within Microsoft is thriving and goes far beyond […]
Read MoreMy apologies to all those who have been waiting for the deployment scenario ? I appreciate your patience. My approach to deployments has been a moving target ? as it is starting to firm up a bit, I thought I would write down some thoughts. For more information on this series, please see the introductory […]
Read MoreI have had a Gmail account for a long time at tony.rasa from Gmail. Since I moved everything over to a Google Apps Domain a while back, I don’t use the Gmail account anymore – but I still have a forwarding rule sending any stray messages to my “new” domain. It turns out that my […]
Read MoreReal code in a production system which will remain unnamed, as will the source. Drink it in. class Customer { public string Role; public void Save() { // lots of code here string[] roles = Roles.GetAllRoles(); foreach (string role in roles) { if (Role.ToUpper() == role.ToUpper()) { Role = role; break; } } // lots […]
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