Listen 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 MoreListen to this episode! [41:37] In this episode, I visited with several women who shared their stories of simply being women in our field. Meagon Marshall Meagon Marshall is the Director of Marketing for Pluralsight. Meagon focuses on market strategy & execution, public relations, community & partner building to evangelize Pluralsight training within the […]
Read MoreOne thing about software development I have always struggled with is inter-team communication. As I develop, I am often thinking things like “I need to make sure I tell Elvis I moved this method” or “The team is really going to like the reduced friction of this new implementation”. I have used various methodologies to […]
Read MoreMost of us have probably tried different versions of a file diffing tool. Some are picky about their choice. Personally I?m fond of two different tools (mostly because they?re easy to find/install and setup). Here?s a post where I talk about how I like to integrate these tools when working with TFS and Visual Studio […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [51:56] Stephen Toub joined me for a great discussion about the new Parallel Programming features in .NET 4. Formally known as the Parallel Extensions Library for .NET, these new features have graduate from DevLabs and are available out of the box in Visual Studio 2010. These exciting new features in .NET […]
Read MoreIn my last post on MSpec, John Sonmez commented: When I see the MSpec code, I think about it being an internal DSL for doing the testing, and I start to think that perhaps it should just go ahead and be it?s own language instead of trying to live inside of C#. On the other […]
Read MoreToday I was testing a long running task where my basic scenario was to execute at the PowerShell prompt. C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test1.txt C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test2.txt C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test3.txt Change some code and do it all over again. C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test4.txt C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test5.txt C:\dev> LongRunningTask.exe > Test6.txt Although seemingly simple […]
Read MoreI’ve taken a lot of heat, here at home, since the man cave post. Although I have my geek’s permission and full support to write about his, um, idiosyncrasies, , it appears that the sharing of the feelings for the Dave Cave was too much. What upset him the most, however, was the fact that […]
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