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4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

Can developers test their own code?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:10:38 GMT

A response to the claim that developers shouldn't test their code! Can developers be trusted? Campbell discusses the kind of tests developers should be writing, and what could be better left for the testers.

Explorations into "M"

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:15:03 GMT

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to dive into M. At PDC, the Addison-Wesley folks were giving away copies of "The 'Oslo' Modeling Language" book, which is apparently official canon of the "M" language for Oslo, so I flip to page 1 and start reading

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

C# 4.0 Dynamic Lookup - Are You Kidding Me?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:02 GMT

One of the core features introduced in C# 4.0 is called Dynamic Lookup which allows a unified approach to invoking things dynamically. When you have an object of type dynamic you can do whatever you like with it, those operations are resolved only at runtime. I DON'T LIKE IT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 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.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:31:06 GMT

My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio.

Do We Need Unit Testing?

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:37:34 GMT

A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers.

SubSonic MVC Addin

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:31:03 GMT

good work!

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.

C# Tip: Don't Concatenate, Use String.Format

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:51:37 GMT

Using String.Format is much better for code readability over using concatenation.

The Art of Programming

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:16:13 GMT

Do you think of programming as an art or as a necessity? Do you think of programming as a passion or just something to make money off of? Do you find that when you write a program you are brought to a place that can no longer be called a job, but a life changing experience? "A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece." - Man on Fire

My Year With TDD

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:02 GMT

It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, the past year has been great for my professional career in many ways.

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.

ASP.NET MVC: Simplified Localization via ViewEngines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:01:17 GMT

Thanks to Brad, he identified a few areas that made things MUCH simpler from my prior implementation. Notably, while you still have your ViewEngine specify "here's your view's path" there's no longer a need for having a new helper, derived classes, etc. This implementation goes back to the simplified HtmlHelper extension in which you can use in any ViewEngine regardless. It also allows you to "replace" the implementation by just changing the namespace, just as you can do with Html and Ajax.

Insidious Dependencies

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Many dependencies in code are obvious, such as relying on a particular framework or database implementation. Others can easily be overlooked. This article exposes some of the more insidious dependencies that commonly exist within applications which may be overlooked as such.

Whats up with Stored Procedures these days?

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:46:19 GMT

When life throws you hard balls, you can either step back and take a swing or bunt the hell out of it. I just recently went to an information session on T-SQL, Stored Procedures and now LINQ. These folks discussed stored procedures and why they are so important in the world today.

A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 learning guide by Stephen Walther

Text Template Transformation Toolkit

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:28:02 GMT

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

HTML Encoding

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:01:35 GMT

In this article the author showed the different ways to show the illegal characters in HTML

Good links: ASP .NET and JQuery

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:05:21 GMT

Found a great bunch of links about using JQuery with asp .net

Make Visual Studio Generate Your Repository

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:31:03 GMT

As many of you may know, I've been goofing around with Code Generation again with SubSonic's new MVC Addin. One of the things I really wanted to try and flex is Visual Studio 2008's code generation bits - T4. Not many people know it even exists, and to me it's one of the Great Hidden Secrets of Visual Studio 2008.