I was recently asked to write a fairly simple piece of code.? In this simple piece of code, I didn?t handle a null input.? I was asked about what kinds of things I would consider about the input, and I pretty much knew what the asker was going after. What do you do if “null? […]
Read MoreSilverlight is a great platform for creating rich internet applications, but a full blown Silverlight app is not a solution to every web application. Lets face it, the vast majority of web applications will always be some type of server based solution, such as ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, etc… Everyday I see more and more creative […]
Read MoreRant here. First off, I’m going to be talking about DBAs. And by DBA, I mean a database developer. Someone who knows relational theory, optimization, and SQL inside out. This is an R&D DBA. There is another type of DBA that mainly deals with uptime and backup strategies. This is an IT DBA, I’m not […]
Read MoreThere has been much deriding of both Scrum and the word ?certification? in the past few months. It has become quite vogue to look down on formal training of any kind it seems, particularly among the ALT.NETerati. I get it, and I think several of the criticisms are deserved. Some aren?t. Disclosure I am a […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [43:45] You aren?t going to use that shiny new Visual Studio 2010 installation to write yet another logging solution, are you? No way! You have far cooler plans for that bad boy. Besides, that?s what Chris Tavares and the team at Microsoft Patterns & Practices do for a living. Chris […]
Read MoreIt is not enough to just write code that is clean and self-documenting.? Eliminating comments and replacing them with clear variable and method names, will tell the reader of your code clearly what it is doing, but it will not properly express why it is doing it. If you recall from my original post on […]
Read MoreI used to think commenting my code was the responsible thing to do. I used to think that I should have a comment for just about every line of code that I wrote. After my first read of Code Complete, my views changed pretty drastically. I began to value good names over comments. As my […]
Read MoreDon?t you just hate it when a class in the .NET Framework or another third-party library or framework provides that particular feature you?re looking for only to realize that this class has not been made accessible? One blatant example of this is the SqlCommandSet class in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace. One can use reflection in order […]
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