Code Isn't Beautiful

submitted by rplant 9 months, 12 days ago

codinghorror.com — I was thrilled to see the book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think show up in my Amazon recommendations. It seems like exactly the type of book I would enjoy. So of course I bought a copy. Unfortunately, Beautiful Code wasn't nearly as enjoyable of a read as I had hoped it would be. It is by no means a bad book, but there's something about it that's not quite right. read more...

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Object Initializers

submitted by rplant 9 months, 22 days ago

blog.jrpsoftware.com — A new feature of Visual Studio 2008 and it's C# 3.0 is Object Initalizers. This compiler feature can be used to set the values of properties without the need to create a special constructors. Even though you must have 2008 to use this feature, you don't have to target the 3.0 or 3.5 framework as it works just fine with the 2.0 framework. read more...

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dnrTV Aggregator Part 2 - LINQ to XML

published 9 months, 21 days ago, submitted by rplant 9 months, 25 days ago

blog.jrpsoftware.com — In Part 1 of this series I went over the creation of a Windows Service and it's remote client. For this installment, I will be covering the use of "LINQ to XML" to gather the feed, and the saving and loading of the XML configuration files. I'll also show some code to download and unzip the videos using SharpZipLib from ic#code. read more...

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Outerglow / Outline Text with GDI+ in C#

submitted by rplant 9 months, 28 days ago

blog.jrpsoftware.com — My previous job required a bit of multimedia programming and involved the use of a lot of different graphics techniques. One day we ran across a bit of code to give drawn text either an outerglow or an outline around it. It turns outs to be much simpler to do than I previously thought and only goes to show that you can always learn a new tricks. read more...

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TDD for Beginners Series

buddylindsey.com — Series of posts geared towards the beginner developer to TDD. These are meant to be as simple as possible to get the understanding across about TDD. read more...

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Confessions of a Software Developer

aaronlerch.com — Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development? read more...

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ASP.NET Custom Errors: Preventing 302 Redirects To Custom Error Pages

submitted by ColinCochrane 10 months, 8 days ago

colincochrane.com — Defining custom error pages is a convenient way to show users a friendly page when they encounter an HTTP error such as a 404 Not Found, or a 500 Server Error. Unfortunately ASP.NET handles custom error pages by responding with a 302 Temporary redirect to the error page that was defined. In this post I explain how to create a custom HttpModule that allows you to use custom error pages while preserving the original HTTP status code and avoiding the 302 redirect to the error page. read more...

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LINQ to SQL Part 3

submitted by rplant 10 months, 12 days ago

blog.jrpsoftware.com — We have seen a couple examples of how to use LINQ to SQL in the previous posts LINQ to SQL Part 1, LINQ to SQL Part 2, and how easy it is to use. The next question now becomes, What if your company strictly uses stored procedures for all of its data accessing? Companies today can have stored procedures number from the hundreds to the thousands. With LINQ to SQL, you can still call your stored procedures and even mix and match the type styles. read more...

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