I drove from Boise to Seattle yesterday to drop off my 4 kids at the grandparents house, then I got up at 4 this morning to catch a plane. Now, I am in Toronto and am really impressed! This place is cool! There was a street festival in full swing when my friend Ken and […]
Read MoreAfter a long hiatus, I am back to doing desktop development full time. No more WebForms, no more ASP.net, no more browser incompatibilities…at least for now. Unfortunately I’ve found the desktop world has changed a bit since I last left it. Tablets have entered the market, small form factor PCs that are no bigger than […]
Read MoreThis is what I consider to be a good architecture for long-lived business applications and how I like to design them. Actually, our current and past two projects apply this design and its far more superior to a traditional layered approach. Check out this well written blog post and keep an eye out for the […]
Read MoreI just read the best article I have come across in a while. Craig Larman and Victor Basili take us to school with a historical perspective on iterative development practices. Thanks, Martin, for the pointer. This article provides a little perspective on the iterative practices discussion with roots going as far back as the 1930s. […]
Read MoreNow this is just cool. Start with the following code: Hit ALT+Enter to get the ReSharper drop down Hit the conversion and get this:
Read More"Let us cleanup and fix this code later so we can meet our deadline".
Read MoreIt should solve a problem and thus it must be valuable to its users. In short, it should do what it must do and simply work. It should be very easy to change. Every piece of code is subject to change, so it should be darn easy to alter its behavior without complete rewrites. Some […]
Read MoreI can?t believe I have lived this long without discovering this little gem inside VS options. You know how Visual Studio creates default files in a test project when you create a new one? Those days of immediate file deletion are over, baby!
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