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What Can a Hybrid Car Teach Us About Continuous Improvement?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:40:59 GMT

Some hybrids train us to drive better in order to improve our gas mileage. What if we could apply this same type of feedback to software development?

The Monostate Pattern

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:52:11 GMT

A brief discussion of how to implement the Monostate pattern, and what advantages it gives us over the Singleton pattern.

Ignoring Third Party Exceptions

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:02:25 GMT

Here's an easy way to tell the debugger to ignore exceptions that occur outside of the code you're interested in.

Using aliases for better code readability

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Here's a quick way to reduce overall code bloat while making your code even more readable.

Providing Multiple Views to the Same Collection

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:57:24 GMT

Using the iterator pattern, you can add you own syntactic sugar to make retrieving objects from a collection easier.

Congrats! Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:01:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. Previously general manager, Guthrie will continue to oversee several development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

Stretching Out...

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:58:58 GMT

Thoughts on the benefits of expanding your skills by learning a new every year.

The Bottom of the Cup

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:29:49 GMT

A challenge to reach outside of our own community and to embrace the ideas from elsewhere in the software development world.

Playing Jazz with Test-Driven Development

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:06:10 GMT

Test Driven Development is NOT about just making it up as you go along. Here's why...

Custom Debugger Visualizers

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:06:26 GMT

Custom debugger visualizers are a little known feature of Visual Studio which allow you to write your own visualization for any datatype which you can imagine. Here is the DLL and accompanying source code for a visualizer for both images and the whitespace of strings.

Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:20:56 GMT

Here's two free MbUnit and NUnit TestFixture file templates for ReSharper that will automatically create an empty skeleton test file for you.

Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:46:07 GMT

Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus!

How An Open Source Developer Transitioned To .Net

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:01:03 GMT

Keith Elder shares his story on how and why he switched from LAMP (php, apache, etc) development over to .NET.

Embedding the Binsor Config File Directly in Your Assembly

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:21:08 GMT

Here's how to embed the Boo config file directly into your assembly when using Binsor to get a super clean deployment!

You got Boo in my Windsor!!!

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:16:06 GMT

Binsor combines the simple elegance of the Boo programming language with the power of the Windsor IoC framework. This post shows you how to get up and running with this technology in a matter minutes so that you can throw away those Windsor .config files forever!

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:46:25 GMT

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

Poor Man's Dependency Injection using Generics

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:01 GMT

Here's a quick way to incorporate dependency injection into your code using generics. This technique can be invaluable for testing.

Easily Test Custom Controls Inside of Visual Studio

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:16:01 GMT

Here's a quick way easily test and debug your custom WinForms controls right inside of Visual Studio without having to launch your entire application.

Overriding ToString for Easier Debugging

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:46:02 GMT

Did you know that you can override the ToString() method to make the debugger show you more information about your objects in the watch window. It's quick, it's easy, and it really works!

Come do TDD in beautiful, scenic Pittsburgh

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:25:35 GMT

My company is hiring a Test-Driven .NET developer to come work in Pittsburgh. I'm a huge believer that someone who cares enough to read to DotNetKicks to keep up on what's going on in .NET land is someone that we want to talk to. If you want to work at a great company where you grow AND be appreciated, then click through to read more.

Three Easy Refactorings to Improve the Readability of Your Code

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:01:02 GMT

Here are three simple and quick ways to instantly improve the readability and overall quality of your code.

Announcing MbUnitForms!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:16:02 GMT

I've ported NUnitForms to run against the increasingly popular unit testing framework, MbUnit.

The Null Object Pattern

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:16:02 GMT

An alternative way to alleviate yourself from checking for null each time you work with a potentially missing object.

Windsor IoC Container in a Lunch Break

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:31:02 GMT

A brief, soup to nuts tutorial designed to get you up and running with the Windsor Container and Inversion of Control within an hour.

Associating Tests With Their Target Objects

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:16:02 GMT

Here's a simple way to associate your tests with their target objects using MbUnit.