A good number of folks have recommended me to pick up Object-Oriented JavaScript after I put out this book review on JavaScript ? The Good Parts. They told me that it?s a great way to dive into the guts of JavaScript, and I must admit that they were right. When I come to think about […]
Read MoreI get to visit with a lot of developers in a lot of different organizations. Sometimes those developers work for software companies, sometimes they don’t. More often they do not. Most IT professionals don’t work for software companies, after all, and custom software development in these environments is considered an “enabling technology” rather than a […]
Read MoreI?ve talked a few times about how the best code you can write is code you never write. One of the major places I end up seeing developer writing code that they don?t need to write is when parsing XML. A word of caution before I go into how to not have to parse XML! […]
Read MoreI have added a new control to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the MessageBox. It is currently in beta and is only available in the source code download. The MessageBox control mimics the System.Windows.MessageBox closely and you use similar syntax to create it. MessageBox Displays a message box that has a message […]
Read MoreI was recently honored to be a guest on Craig Shoemaker?s Polymorphic Podcast. Craig was one of the very first podcasters to focus on .NET and I remember listening to his show on my way to work many years ago. Another cool part for me is that I got to be a guest instead of […]
Read MoreWPF developers, have you ever needed a control that it is in the Silverlight Toolkit but not the WPF Toolkit? What is that all about? Well my solution to that problem is on CodePlex and it is called the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF controls, components and utilities […]
Read MoreListen Now! Kate Gregory has probably forgotten more coding tricks than I have ever learned. That means that she likes her Visual Studio with meat and potatoes. With the new extensibility?model in Visual Studio 2010,? Visual Studio can now be the primary source or protein in your IDE diet. In this episode Kate tells us […]
Read MoreI?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 […]
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