Perceptions of Quality

notethat.blogspot.com — Quite some ago Intergen's Development Steering Group (DSG, a small group of senior developers/architects) went on a 'retreat' to discuss issues affected the development team as a whole and plan some strategy. Among the items up for discussion was the issue of quality - how to achieve it, and, in order to decide that, what on earth quality actually is. You might be thinking: "That's easy. Quality is making something good" which is all very well until you are asked to define what makes a piece of software 'good'. Is it that the code is well written, well documented, that the design is clean, tidy and understandable, that the GUI looks pretty, that the GUI is easy to use, that the system meets user requirements? All of the above? read more...

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Mono, a look forward

published 8 months, 25 days ago, submitted by w3stfa11 8 months, 25 days ago

tempvariable.blogspot.com — A brief look at where Mono is and where's it going. read more...

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Video of Luke Hoban's In-Depth Look at C# 3.0

blogs.msdn.com — Last fall in Barcelona, Spain two PM's from the C# team gave talks on key parts of the new technology found in Visual Studio 2008. * Microsoft Visual C# Under the Covers: An In-Depth Look at C# 3.0 * LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data with Language Integrated Query read more...

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.NET Namespaces

blackwasp.co.uk — The sixteenth part of the C# Object-Oriented Programming tutorial describes the use of namespaces. Namespaces allow classes, structures and other items to be grouped and organised and remove the possibility of class-naming conflicts. read more...

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20 Famous Software Disasters

devtopics.com — "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." –Paul Ehrlich read more...

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.NET Rocks! Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

published 9 months, 11 days ago, submitted by w3stfa11 9 months, 13 days ago

dotnetrocks.com — Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of the .NET Framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. The focus is mostly about running .NET apps on the Mac. read more...

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VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

weblogs.asp.net — VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available, as posted to ScottGu's blog. Numerous fixes, including the "source code editor freeze" issue that a few people have experienced. read more...

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New BlogEngine.NET Extension - SlideShow Photo Gallery

published 9 months, 11 days ago, submitted by DannyDouglass 9 months, 15 days ago

dannydouglass.com — I've wanted to build a BlogEngine.NET extension to display a photo gallery since I first starting using this product. Vertigo has made my job easier with Slide.Show, a rich Silverlight application that provides an elegant and simple photo sharing user experience. It also supports direct Flickr integration that I have included as a part of this extension. All you have to do is change one configuration value in the configuration.xml and you are all set to hook into your Flickr account. A live demo can be found at http://dannydouglass.com/page/photogallery.aspx. My website offers a popup version of this gallery (click the "photos" tab above) that I would be glad to explain in a follow-up post if there is any interest. [Requires Silverlight 1.0] read more...

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