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Oct
2017
Matt at VSLive!
Matt is at VSLive! and is blogging on the sessions. Whidbey, Avalon, etc. What will they think of next?
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Jul
2010
Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back
This spring I had the distinct honor of teaching a .Net programming course at Boise State University. Going into the course I was definitely unsure of what to expect. From David Starr’s horror stories of burning ERD’s to cautious skepticism from other professors I entered this senior level class half wondering if I’d be teaching […]
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Mar
2008
IE team ports FireBug to IE8
EDIT: I created a follow up post to this. Microsoft, doing what it knows how to do best, has once again copied a great tool – striving to make the tool Microsoft’s own. Granted, a number of times this has gone badly (the first version of MSUnit is such a case), but I am very […]
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Dec
2007
Are You Experienced?
In addition to overall architecture (let’s not argue about what that means) my role with my current employer involves a lot of higher level operations responsibilities. So I am a stereotypical non-coding architect…who doesn’t even to get to do much architecting! However recently I’ve wormed (forced!) my way onto a couple of projects where I […]
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Dec
2007
But the tests passed on my machine…
I checked in some code earlier today. Naturally I had successfully run all of the unit tests locally first. Nevertheless the CI build still failed. Luckily I had faced this problem before and after some initial frustration I quickly figured out the cause. Here are a couple of tips to help you if you face […]
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Oct
2007
Are named queries outside of your DAO layer bad?
Both Hibernate and JPA support named queries and I would typically recommend keeping them inside your DAOs. However, using a typesafe Generic DAO implementation, you can have one class support all of your CRUD operations, and use named queries to support finder methods. But this approach requires that your service/manager layer know your named queries […]
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Sep
2006
Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management
I am becoming more and more a fan of Esther Derby.? I heard her speak several times at Agile 2006 with Diana Larson and knew then that I would be seeking out more of?their collective?wisdom, despite their admission that they create scrapbooks like other Midwestern women.?? Esther has?a very plain spoken, but effective communication style […]
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Oct
0207
Whidbey Preview
I have pulled the Whidbey technical preview and am installing it tonight on an XP Virtual Machine. This’ll be fun.
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