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TDD or POUT

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:31:02 GMT

Because Unit Testing is the plain-Jane progenitor of Test Driven Development, it's kind of unfair that it doesn't have an acronym of its own. After all, it's hard to get programmer types to pay attention if they don't have some obscure jargon to bandy about. UT is too awkward, besides being a state abbreviation in the U.S., so for this post (and, if it catches on, future posts as well) I'll borrow from the telco folks and call unit testing Plain Old Unit Testing.

Do Not Learn Ruby

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:31:02 GMT

A tongue in cheek essay on the perils of learning Ruby. You've been warned: do not learn Ruby!

Do You Really Need A Distributed Architecture?

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Does the question sound rhetoric to you? Do you think the answer is "Yes" by default these days? Think twice. Ask yourself the questions below. You may change your mind at the end.

SQL Server 2008 (Codename Katmai) June CTP avalable for public down

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:03:11 GMT

The features and download instructions on the newly released June CTP of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Codename Katmai).

LINQ To Flickr

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:16:02 GMT

I had some free time at last, so I implemented a LINQ extension to Flickr, so you can query for photos by tags, creation date, user id or title, the implementation was really easy because I didn't have to use the Flickr API's directly as I found a good open source library for this called FlickrNet which I used as my infrastructure. So this is a sample of a query

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:31:01 GMT

If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology Preview releases, there shouldn't be anything too surprising in the final release, although the overall quality should be much higher. All of the major new features have already been described on this blog or in other places, but here is a quick summary of the most significant changes:

Command Pattern in C# 2.0 = Generics + delegates

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:16:02 GMT

How to implement Command Design pattern in C# 2.0 in a way that is more suitable with C# 2.0

AJAX Anti Patterns (Thesse are to be avoided!!)

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:50:41 GMT

Yesterday, I found these 5 AJAX Anti patterns The "anti patterns" are simply what you should avoid when doing AJAX on your website. You should find them as helpful as the top ten AJAX mistakes I linked to before (or even more).

DotNetKicks.sql - Download the SQL schema

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:16:02 GMT

Here is the first portion of the DotNetKicks source code that will soon be released in full open source glory. Please note that I have not yet decided on which open source license to use for this project, so please don't sell it to google for billions just yet.

DotNetKicks to be Open Sourced

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:16:01 GMT

As the community on DotNetKicks.com has grown in size over the past year, I have received received many offers of help with adding features and many requests for the source code. Due to other top secret commitments, I have recently not had as much time as I would have liked to continue the development of DotNetKicks.com. A discussion on DotNetKicks last week re-highlighted the issue of feature stagnation (the community is continuing to grow just fine). We are in the business of solving problems, and the best solution here is to open source the project. I had planned to release some code this past weekend, but some of the current dependencies include code that I don't wish to release. I am currently refactoring the dependencies, and I will be able to release some code very soon. Please shout it from the roof tops, we need all the contributers we can get.

Observer Pattern in C# = Events & delegates

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:01:02 GMT

One of the most interesting patterns in Design Patterns is the Observer pattern which is listed under Behavioral Patterns, it is really important how to make other classes which are interested in the state of another object get notified when the state changed.

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:46:01 GMT

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts with many sample projects, js files and other resources

ORCAS March CTP Db Providers Problem

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:47:36 GMT

I had a weird problem today in my working machine, I have .net 3.0, VS 2005, Sql Server 2005 Client tools, and I decided to give VS Orcas a try, so Meligy downloaded the bits from microsoft (VS Orcas March CTP), and I install it, and two days later I found out that Sql Server gives me this exception when I try to access database object (table, view, diagram ... etc)

Design Patterns for ASP.NET (Part 1)

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:16:01 GMT

or the past year or so, I've been involved in documenting frameworks that help developers write better code, and create applications that are more efficient and easier to test, debug, maintain, and extend. During that time, it has been interesting to see the continuing development of best-practice techniques and tools at one of the leading software companies in our industry. Most of the work was outside my usual sphere of ASP.NET and web development, concentrating mainly on Windows Forms applications built using .NET 2.0. This is an area where standard design patterns that have evolved over many years are increasingly being refined and put into practice.

Your complete set of options for Vista and Orcas March CTP combined

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:11:29 GMT

Orcas March CTP does not install on Vista. How come some say they could get it to install? Or, simply: Why are there so many download links with almost the same title in Microsoft downloads, and what's the difference between each? This is hopefully a good try to tell you the real answers.

VS Orcas March CTP on Vista - Don't even think about it :(

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:46:02 GMT

If you tried to install Visual Studio Codename Orcas on Windows Vista, you must have had an error during this. The error might not be clear at all, or in some times indicate that it's because it cannot find an error log file (which is should be creating itself). The last word on Vista support and VS Orcas March CTP.

Argotic: Enabling Developers to Grok Web Content Syndication

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:46:02 GMT

Argotic is a collection of Microsoft.NET class libraries that implement common web content syndication specifications such as RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0. With the Argotic, consuming syndication feeds or generating your own custom feeds has never been easier. Argotic also includes a database provider model and the ability to handle syndication extensions.

Generating Dynamic OpenXML (docx) files

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:01:02 GMT

Recently, I needed to integrate one of my applications to MS Office Word 2007 by generating dynamic *.docx reports. Actually, I didn't wanted to just find the steps to do it. I wanted to make a reusable library so that, I can use it independently in any project in the future.

Great AJAX, WPF, RSS and Gadgets content

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:16:01 GMT

As you know MIX07 will be at Las Vegas on April 30 - May 2nd this year. I'm sure this would be the best conference for me, but can't afford to go there, bouuuuhhh :-( If you feel like me, you'll be happy to know that you'll find lots of free content to download (Videos, Powerpoint, Demos, Hands-On Lab) about these topics : Windows Presentation Foundation ASP.NET AJAX Gadgets RSS WPF /E

ASP.NET Caching Gotcha

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:49:25 GMT

A small gotcha regarding ASP.NET and caching.

More on best practices for exception handling

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:31:02 GMT

Bill Wagner (author of "Effective C#"), adds his smart thoughts to Scott Hansleman's post on best practices for exception handling.