Do any of you have twitch words? Words that set you off? If someone says that particular word, you go into attach mode. I do. For me, that word is “always”. Case in point, if you are writing a user story use the word “always”, I’ll make sure you have a bad time. I wont […]
Read MoreOK, cat out of the bag here, Elegant Code got hacked. Most likely because someone figured out a username/password on the site. That is the boring part. Blah blah blah, use strong passwords, make sure you don’t have sql injection, js injection, etc. OK, onto the interesting part! What did the hackers do with this […]
Read MoreWhat I’m talking about here are two styles of development. And this isn’t an “us vs. them”, this is a “me, myself, I and all of yall”. We all use both of these patterns in developing code, and will even switch patterns in the same product from feature to feature. Anyway, here are your definitions: […]
Read MoreI’ve been spending some time getting my head wrapped around the idea of MicroOrms lately. A lot of this has to do with some of the scalability/caching issues I’ve been having with NHibernate. Don’t get me wrong, I still love NHibernate, but it can be a bit of a beast when you are really trying […]
Read MoreEver start a project just to learn something new? But to do it, you have to have an app idea to throw around it? I had one of those. I’ve been doing a wee bit of iOS development over the past year, and I found I wanted to learn about iAds, in App Purchasing, talking between […]
Read MoreThis is not your usual book review that you would expect on a site like this. First off, the book does not talk about code, software, or software developers even once. But, almost everything in this book is applicable to what we do as software developers, managers, project managers, and leads. The book, Brain Rules […]
Read MoreI’ve been working with a team of guys on several Asp.Net MVC projects since October of 2009. While that isn’t the greatest amount of time, and I’m still no expert, I thought I’d jot down a few of the practices that we have developed to help make coding a bit smoother. Asp.Net MVC, as with […]
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 […]
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