When my wife and I bought our house back in April, one of my pet projects has been to renovate the room over our garage. I knew buying the house that it would be a lot of work, partly because the previous owner didn’t know what he was doing when finishing a room. I’ve spent the last week and half ...

Are you struggling at work measuring the quality of your software deliveries? Read this blogpost and you'll quickly be able to define what parts of your codebase you should pay the most attention to and whether it needs improvement or not. Got a load of questions about software quality and no answer...

I’ve been thinking about this for at least a week or two. In fact, it’s been since I started (and finished) reading the book “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. There is probably only two way to go.

Keyvan writes about the current "principles and qualiy vs common-sense and do the quickest possible solution" and tries to understand why developers tend to prefer the "quick and dirty" vs the "clean and polished" solution.

Things (very very) important on the web other than AJAX and Web 2.0

What if you have a Team Project with 2 solutions in 1 team project it? How can I enforce the check-in policy to run tests from solution A only when something in solution A is checked in, tests from solution B with solution B changes, ...

* Programmers are craftsmen. As craftsmen, they work to a quality line, NOT a deadline. * Software is not industrial. It is not a product that has a direct correlation between quantity and value. * Because it is both a craft and a replicatable product, software has both elements of pre-...

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provid...

There's always time to browse CodePlex! It is actually a good thing to do that from time to time. In the past few days, I spotted two great new projects on Team Foundation Server. Thumbs up for their authors!

NStatic seems to be a really promising code analysis tool that goes way deeper than other tools like FxCop or ReSharper.