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The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:00 GMT

What happens when you get a few web developers who like puzzles together? Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, and rise to the challenge!

Pulling others up

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:45:00 GMT

What should you do when you're in a situation where the people you're working with aren't using the latest and greatest technology and might not be using the so-called "best practices" that you subscribe to?

Throw Exceptions In Your Domain

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:55 GMT

If you have a Domain Model, you're going to have code that validates rules and checks for inconsistencies ... start with the simplest way of handling business logic errors: throw an exception.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

Should We Return Null From Our Methods?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:15:06 GMT

I read a interesting article recently about the potential perils of Null Check Hell. The author's suggestion? Stop allowing any of your methods to return nulls, ever . No nulls returned, no null checks necessary. Problem solved, right?

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

Singletons vs. Static Classes

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:01:02 GMT

My last "versus" post seemed to elicit a good number of interesting responses. Today, I'm musing about Singletons vs. Static Classes -- two constructs which appear to accomplish the same task. Or do they?

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn't Be Using

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:31:03 GMT

Overview of some not-so-common keywords and reasons to avoid them...or understand what the implications are if we use them.

NH2.1.0: generators behavior explained

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:16:03 GMT

Diving in generators behavior. In the last year we saw an increment of NHibernate's users and sometimes they are ignoring some facts, by the way I'm hoping this post will be useful to "old" users too. I will try to show you what happen behind the scene and hopefully this will be one of the bases, of your decision, when you must choose a POID generator strategy....

A cool puzzle game for programmers, written in Silverlight

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

The goal of the game is to program a robot to pick up stars. The puzzles are submitted by other users, and ranked by difficulty based on votes.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

5 iPhone Apps Published in 30 Days - Read How

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:00:28 GMT

Axosoft has published 5 iPhone apps within 30 days with no prior knowledge of Mac or iPhone development. In fact, the entire team was .NET developers!

A Quick Example of YAGNI / Simplest Thing Possible in Action

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:16:14 GMT

If you've ever worked on an Agile/XP team you've surely heard something in the lines of "Let's YAGNI that. (YAGNI == You aren't gonna need it)" You've probably also heard the phrase "do the simplest thing that could possibly work." Both of these sayings are an exhortion to developers to avoid overdesign and analysis/paralysis by focusing on the here and now instead of getting caught up in designing for a conjectural need. I called YAGNI on something today.

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

responding to coding horror

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:01:06 GMT

Rob responds to opinions on coding horror

professional values

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:45:24 GMT

Interesting post about over the need to agree to disagree, even in software development.

Sending Domain Objects Across the Wire

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:31:03 GMT

or Using NHibernate and WCF

Putting ASP.net Application In Offline Mode Using app_offline.htm

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:11:08 GMT

When ASP.Net found a file names app_offlinne.htm in the root of a web application directory, it shut-down the application, unload the application domain from the server, and stop processing any new incoming requests for that application. ASP.NET also then respond to all requests for dynamic pages in the application by sending back the content of the app_offline.htm file (for example: you might want to have a "site under construction" or "down for maintenance" message).

Helping everyday developers succeed

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:00:05 GMT

Software development is hard. You have to know how to use so many different tools and you have to try and keep up with it all. Sometimes I wonder if we could do more to make these complicated tools easier to use.

LINQ to NHibernate, IEnumerable vs IQueryable

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:16:11 GMT

LINQ is pretty cool but there are some subtleties to watch out for. Learn from someone elses experiences making sure only the necesary queries are making it through to the database.

Converting .NET Assemblies to Silverlight Assemblies

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:25:20 GMT

Share your .Net assemblies with Silverlight