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You shouldn't use a electronic storyboard

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:51:04 GMT

When doing a sprint planning you should avoid using a electronic storyboard. My experience is that you end up with one person, probably the scrum master, running the whole show.

How to sell TDD

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:41:31 GMT

Everyone is into TDD these days. Right? If you want to call yourself a serious developer, you need to write unit tests. Blogs and seminars are filling your head with: "TDD or loose your night sleep". "TDD or write tons of documentation". "TDD or have a crappy design". I could go on forever...

Model View Presenter explained

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:31:09 GMT

It's time to have a look at the MVP pattern again.

Design Patterns - Command Pattern

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:59 GMT

What's a lonely geek to do late in the evening? Write about the Command Pattern of course. Let's start with the definition: "Encapsulate a request as an object, thereby letting you parameterize clients with different requests, queue or log requests, and support undo-able operations."

When in Rome, try to improve

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:31:11 GMT

Have you ever worked with people who uses this phrase a lot: "We have always done it this way, so why should we do it any different now?".

How lambda expressions can replace anonymous methods

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:31:30 GMT

This post will introduced the syntax of a lambda expression and how it can replace anonymous methods.

LINQ Farm: LINQ Sets

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:31:10 GMT

This is the sixth in a series of articles on LINQ. In this post the focus will be on the LINQ Set operators. Near the end of the post I include a short section on the importance of choosing the best operator for a particular task. Please see the links at the bottom of this post to retrieve the code.

Intellisense for SQL Server with Red-Gate's Free SQL Prompt

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Red-Gate Software's free SQL Prompt tool provides Intellisense capabilities in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, Visual Studio 2003 & 2005 and even UltraEdit.

Tree Surgeon - Development Tree Generator

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:31:02 GMT

Have you ever spent a few days setting up a new development tree? Have you ever spent several days setting up several development trees? Have you even spent weeks trying to perfect all your development trees using a set of best practices? If the answer to any of the above answers is 'yes', then you'll like Tree Surgeon! Tree Surgeon is a .NET development tree generator. Just give it the name of your project, and it will set up a development tree for you in seconds. More than that, your new tree has years worth of accumulated build engineering experience built right in. Give Tree Surgeon a spin today!

Organizing Unit Tests and Projects With Solution Folders

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:31:02 GMT

Rather than letting the alphabetical nature of the Solution Explorer drive my naming conventions, I will typically toss my tests in a separate Solutions Folder that separates it from the rest of the core code, etc.

Model View Presenter mutated: Observable View

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:01:01 GMT

One of my crusades of the past year has been to break myself and my team of the habit of embedding domain logic into the code-behinds of our ASP.NET pages...

Recording of MSDN Canada Writing Secure Code Fundamentals

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:31:01 GMT

A security screencast dealing with security topics every developer should be aware of when developing. Topics include: XSS, SQL Injection, BufferOverrun, Canonicalization Issues and more.

ASP.NET spell checker application

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:01:03 GMT

Check out this ASP.NET spell checker application and the best part is that it is free ...

SharpDevelop2 2.0 Final Release

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:31:01 GMT

The latest release of the free C# IDE is available for download

Model View Presenter with ASP.NET

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:11:01 GMT

This article describes using the Model-View-Presenter pattern within ASP.NET 2.0 to encourage proper separation of concerns between presentation and business logic.

Fireball Framework - Free .NET Syntax Highlight Control and More

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:09:01 GMT

Fireball Framework is project that aim to create the best controls and libraries for developer, the project already contains some control, CodeEditorControl with Syntax Highlight, Collections,Outlook Navigation bar and etc.. Here are some compiled examples: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dotnetfireball/FireEdit_Bin.zip?download Simply Excellent !!

Roland Weigelt's GhostDoc

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:13:01 GMT

GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments. Either by using existing documentation inherited from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.

Using Rhino Mocks To Unit Test Events on Interfaces

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:01:01 GMT

Demonstrates how to use Rhino Mocks mock testing framework to unit test events.

New .NET Framework 3.0 Community Website

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:01:01 GMT

NetFx3.com is a new developer community that focuses on the four new technologies included in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (the technologies formerly known as WinFx): * Windows Communication Foundation * Windows Presentation Foundation * Windows Workflow Foundation * Windows CardSpace

Static Members and Threading Best Practices

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:33:01 GMT

"After reviewing some code examples out there, I decided it was time to look into static members and threading best practices. I see a lot of the same mistakes being made over and over. We can think of many times when we create static methods and properties that sometimes we forget that problems can arise."

Enhancing Images using the Decorator Design Pattern

Sat, 27 May 2006 03:33:01 GMT

Ever looked for a practical, meaningful use for the decorator pattern. This article will show how you apply the Decorator pattern to change the look of images at runtime.

Handling Drop Down Lists in Web Pages With Model View Presenter

Thu, 25 May 2006 09:13:01 GMT

Take a look at the way that drop down lists in web pages can be manipulated and controlled from outside of the code behind files, using the model view presenter pattern. Source code included.