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What is your strategy for becoming a better developer?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:31:19 GMT

Let me know what your best habits, tricks, info sources, etc.... that you have which make you a better developer. And the top three are going to get a copy of "The Pragmatic Programmer" in order to make themselves a better developer.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:31:09 GMT

A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called "drag-and-drop demos" - point-and-click demonstrations of "software development" that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents.

IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:16:12 GMT

For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and host it on github.

Alt.net certification

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:47:02 GMT

The necessary next step in Alt.net: Certification!

Ranting and Raving or Getting Results?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:16:07 GMT

Josh talks about the recent Vote of No confidence and offers up some advice for those wanting to see change.

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 4: More Dependency Injectsion and IOC

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:31:08 GMT

Part 2 of the discussion between Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on DI and IOC

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:32:55 GMT

An oldie but a goodie: Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rather than augmenting it? This talk dissects the code generated by Visual Studio; analyzes the appalling programming practices it perpetuates; rhapsodizes about the joys, frustrations, and satisfactions of unassisted coding.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Playing Nice With Service Locators

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:16:09 GMT

An explanation of how you can use the Service Locator pattern along with dependency injection to make your code more flexible in certain cases.

Ninject 1.0 Goes Gold at Discord&Rhyme

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:16 GMT

Ninject, an excellent Dependency Injection Framework with support for Silverlight, the compact framework, and all regular flavors of .NET just hit 1.0.

Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 3: Twitter War Stories

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:31:06 GMT

A group of Twitter power users met up on the last day of the TechEd 2008 Conference. They sat down with Deep Fried Bytes host and Twitter user Keith Elder to discuss their ideas, experiences and observations of the online service. Each person has their own reason for using Twitter but they all share a common theme. They all use Twitter to keep in touch with their friends and stay connected to keep relationships thriving.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 4: Agile Kaikaku

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Owen Rogers discusses Agile Kaikaku, or a radical process change event within an organization. Owen is an Agile coach and has helped many teams adopt Agile practices.

What's Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2?

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:16:02 GMT

A good summary of what's changed in Beta 2.

When the Going Gets Tough or How to Improve

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

How to improve yourself as a developer.

Try IronRuby In Your Browser

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:53:06 GMT

Oleg Tkachenko has set up an interactive site based on the classic "Try Ruby" site by _why, but utilizing IronRuby. Check it out!

Alt.NET Purse Fight! You're daily roundup of Alt.NET

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:16:02 GMT

An amusing daily round up of the Alt.NET mailing list.

Report on the Alt.NET Leadership Summit

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:24:56 GMT

Josh Holmes reports back from the Alt.NET Leadership Summit and discusses some of what Alt.NET is and isn't suppose to be.

Martin Fowler has a new Podcast!

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:12:16 GMT

ThoughtWorks has a new podcast, IT Matters, that discuss the business and technology issues facing the IT Industry. The First topic is Domain Specic Languages.

Sam Gentile: Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Sam Gentile decides to distance himself from CodeBetter and ALT.NET due to perceived an Anti-MS bias there.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Community Convergence XXXII

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:13:18 GMT

Welcome to the thirty second issue of Community Convergence. I write these posts to keep you up to date on the latest information from the C# team. The biggest news right now is probably not C# specific, but nevertheless lots of my fellow team members have been excited to see that a Windows 2008 Release Candidate is available for download. Note that further down in the this text I call out a post from Scott Hanselman on this subject.

An architect should code. Period

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:46:02 GMT

This has been said over and over again, but as long as it keeps happening it just has to be said again. A very common career path in IT "promotes" a coder over the years to a program manager with architect responsibilities. And being an architect they stop writing code themselves. The thing I see over and over again is that these people keep living in the programming environment in which they grew up.

Part 1 - Leveraging Workflow Foundation - It is just an API

Mon, 14 May 2007 01:16:01 GMT

To help you limit the amount of rusty washers you will run into with Workflow Foundation, I wanted to share our team's experience in working through Workflow. In this multiple part series we'll look at some of the challenges the team faced and how we solved some of these. I say "some" of these because we took side steps around the rusty washers we found due to our short time frame. Hopefully this brain dump of information will save others time who are about to start using Workflow Foundation. I'll cover some of the in and outs where you will want to look into workflow and some of the pitfalls we had to work around (the rusty washers).

Where is the Code?

Sat, 12 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

Almost 2 months ago, DotNetKicks went open source yet not source code has been given to the people. Where's the Beef?