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Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:46:26 GMT

Holy cow! Another *DD - man I really must have an IV with that Alt.NET Punch just coursing like a train in my veins! I ask for your patience with this one - cause I think BDD is a really good tool to know - whether you use it or not - knowing the workings of it will allow you to have some intelligent conversation the next time you're in Austin :).

Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C#

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:07:49 GMT

Does what it says on the tin

Implementing a simple genetic algorithm

Fri, 01 May 2009 19:01:02 GMT

In this blog post I'll give a quick introduction to what genetic algorithms are and what they can be used for. We'll implement a genetic algorithm that attempts to guess an RGB color by evolving upon a random set of initial guesses, until it at some point evolves into the correct RGB value.

string.Empty versus ""

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

The author shows ways that "" is better than string.Empty and results in clearer and possibly faster code.

SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

This article is very serious and I would like to explain this as simple as I can. SCOPE_IDNETITY() which is commonly used in place of @@Idnetity has bug when run in Parallel Plan. Do your community service. Read the article. Bookmark it. Kick it and spread the word.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

Static urls for aspx pages in 20 lines of code

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:47:16 GMT

A nice way to create refactor proof page links

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

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.

Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:31:04 GMT

Before I was a geek, I was a Geologist. A Geophysicist to be precise - but mostly I just tell people I was a Geologist. I worked a lot with environmental cleanup, but I also spent a lot of time doing what's known as "Geotechnical" work - the stuff that happens before buildings are built and holes are dug. It can be kind of boring, but it's crucially important. One day I was sitting in our lab with some dark Bay Mud in a crucible, slowly adding water in measured doses and then pouring the mud through a screen and weighing out differences. I won't bore you with the details - I'll just tell you that I was 23 and cranky that this is what my career amounted to - a bunch of rigorous nonsense where I got to weigh mud.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

MigrationScriptGenerator

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:10:27 GMT

a tool for generating SQL scripts for changes (using Open DBDiff), with errors if you do a change that might lose data. It creates a script for you to review. If your changes are non destructive, then it just makes the change script for you.

Automatically serializing value objects using Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:39:38 GMT

After reading James Gregory's posts on Fluent NHibernate (in particular http://blog.jagregory.com/2009/01/11/fluent-nhibernate-auto-mapping-type-conventions/) I had a quick play and came up with this.

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

Sort Visual Studio 2008 Projects alphabetically inside Solution Folder

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:31:07 GMT

This blog article shows how to sort Visual Studio 2008 projects alphabetically inside Solution Folders

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Handling "GO" Separators in SQL Scripts - the easy way

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:46:02 GMT

use SMO to run SQL scripts on .NET

Linq To Sql Schema

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:31:39 GMT

A new library to let you access database structures from c#. Helpful when generating code or writing migrations.

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

Foundation of Programming FREE EBook - CodeBetter.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:46:05 GMT

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin

Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:01:02 GMT

I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu.

OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Introducing a new open source project whose aim is to bring the OMeta language to .net.