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Running an Agile Team, A Year Later

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Are you holding back on adopting Agile practices? Listen in as Sara Ford, Codeplex Program Manager, explains first hand the benefits of working in an Agile team and why she wouldn't go back to the traditional Microsoft methodology.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

Software Developers Never Change

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:24 GMT

So if you are to take anything away from this rant, take this, do what you love, and become the best at it. And if what you love isn't your 9-5 job, deeply understand this and get out of the way of people who's 9-5 job is what they love.

Stored Procedures vs. Ad-Hoc (yet again yawn)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Inspired by Chris Love's Things I Hate About NET post http://www.dotnetkicks.com/aspnet/Things_I_Hate_About_NET I respond to his love of (yech) Stored Procedures.

Visual Studio Team System Widgets

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:41:11 GMT

This is a list of various Visual Studio Team System add-ins, add-ons, widgets, and extensibility solutions. These widgets may be works in progress, open source, or commercially licensed products, so please read the respective license agreements!

How to make your page printer friendly with CSS

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:47 GMT

Eric Meyer describes how to make 'printer friendly' CSS using media specific styles.

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

Why you should always remember to set Debug="false" !

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:16:02 GMT

Scott explains why it's so important to remember about this little parameter.

ASP.NET MVC Design Philosophy

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

A great post from Eilon about the philosophy and approach to MVC in ASP.NET...

Design Pattern Automation Toolkit

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:02:05 GMT

DpaToolkit is a tool to help in software development via design patterns. The design can be visualized via class diagrams and design patterns can be incorporated into the design easily. Dpatoolkit comes with the following code generators : C# , C++ , Java , VB.NET. New code generators can be easily plugged into the application.

VSUnit - Visual Studio add-in

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:14:11 GMT

Allows you to run your NUnit unit tests using Visual Studio's context menu. You can run console, GUI and GUI with debugger attached. Source code is available.

ALT-Coder trait explained: C# Virtual properties / methods

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:19:50 GMT

A quick and dirty lowdown on just what the heck the C# virtual keyword is good for. It's one of those topics you've heard of, but not too commonly used in daily practice. Get the skinny, impress your co-workers, win powerful allies, (chicks still won't care).

Cheat Sheet: ASP.NET Page Life Cycle & Common Events

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:01:01 GMT

We've all seen Leon Andrianarivony's excellent ASP.NET Page Life Cycle diagram. This one-page cheat sheet is the perfect compliment to that diagram, providing descriptions for each of the common stages and events.