I?ve talked about why smaller is better and especially why this pertains to product backlogs, or rather fatlogs, but I wanted to zoom in for a second to one of the most valuable applications of the rule: writing the code. Typical workflow What do you do when you get a task or a backlog item […]
Read MoreIn a previous blog post I showed a basic example of how to use the Delegate.CreateDelegate() method as an alternative to the slow MethodInfo.Invoke() for dynamically invoking a method of a class at runtime. The only downside of using CreateDelegate is that its not strongly typed. This is usually not a problem when the signature […]
Read MoreListen Now! [34:20] Steve Andrews is all about community and helps us understand what it really means to be a part of the technical developer meatspace. Steve has gone beyond the occasional Code Camp and has actually presented talks at 52 community events in one year. Also, Steve is the founder of Geek Give, […]
Read MoreFor those of you who did not get to see the “Local Messaging and Silverlight” geekSpeak webcast live, it has been posted on Channel9 for your viewing pleasure. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak/geekSpeak-Recording-Local-Messaging-and-Silverlight-with-Brian-Lagunas/ And yes, I did give Elegant Code some love on the show.
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended last weeks NETDUG presentations. For those of you who would like to get started right away with Bing Maps in your Silverlight applications, you can start here: Get the Bing Maps Silverlight Control Get a Bing Maps API Key Play with the Bing Maps interactive SDK Application Read the Bing […]
Read MoreIf you haven’t noticed lately, I have been pretty quite on the blogs recently. That is mainly due to my new born baby, and a new job. Well, I have set aside some time to do a GeekSpeak webcast with Glen Gorden and Mithun Dhar. Here is the episode description: “A powerful feature of Microsoft […]
Read MoreHave you ever written an API or a method and expected it to be used a certain way, but then found people doing all kinds of bad things with your precious API that you never intended? I was working on building an automated testing framework for a welfare system in which cases could be added […]
Read MoreFriday morning, one of my colleagues asked, “What do you consider to be the difference between a junior, mid-level, and senior developer?” Being a .NET shop, the obvious answer would be to head over to Scott Hanselman’s blog and pull up this post: What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Questions). Scott […]
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