Literate Programming - Before we discuss the acronyms.....

submitted by dcarr 2 days, 8 hours ago

literateprogramming.com — All to often (as it is far easier) people relish the technical discussions without digging into the 'how and why does this fundamentally help me' at a few levels of abstraction higher. I for one think code comments are the exception not the rule. Why? 1) If you need to comment it you likely need to refactor it. THis is why ReSharper is so mandatory. It's the practice not the tool. Why refactor? 90% of most cost is in maintenance. 2) Code comments are as often as node misleading and incorrect as they are not kept up to date. 3) Improvements in automated developer generated API docs are sufficient in most cases. This leaves the 'domain-specific' or 'contextual' documentation as the mandate. Here your focus is not on the how, but the why and the what. If you discuss the abstraction's rationale, and reason for existence, not how it internally works, you're safe. There are always exceptions to any rule however this is just to get the ideas flowing. For example, CruiseControl.NET is a fantastic tool. However it's not about the tool, it's about the practice. The fact that Microsoft 'patterns and Practices' has no ' and tools' at the end is because tools change quickly and their abilities dramatically but the concepts from 10 years ago are still not used if there is in general no easy 'tool support'. People don;t like to think this iway in general and if there was perhaps one reason some evolve into 'architects' or whatever you want to call them, it is this. The site listed helps.. DAmon read more...

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NHibernate 2.0 Beta 1 Released

submitted by dcarr 4 days, 10 hours ago

ayende.com — Well done... You might have noticed in our more detailed post we 'borrowed' the artwork. Hope you don't mind! Thanks, domain.dot.net team read more...

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Microsoft Security Advisory - SQL Injection

codersbarn.com — Apparently the saga continues; although I don't have exact figures, there was another rise in attacks in May. Suffice to say that Microsoft saw fit to release a security advisory (954462) on Tuesday, 06-24-2008. read more...

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Design Patterns - Observer Pattern

submitted by CumpsD 8 days, 9 hours ago

blog.cumps.be — Yesterday we saw the Strategy Pattern. Today I want to talk about the Observer Pattern. First, the definition again: "Define a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically." read more...

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Design Patterns - Strategy Pattern

submitted by CumpsD 9 days, 12 hours ago

blog.cumps.be — An informal explanation of the Strategy Pattern, using a simply strategy game as an example, class diagrams and code samples included. read more...

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SharePoint Development on Vista X86 or X64

codersbarn.com — No more VMs... Code against WSS/MOSS on your Vista PC :-) read more...

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.NET Reflector

dotnettoad.com — It's surprising that there are many developers that do not know about this great tool. read more...

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Beginning Silverlight - First Steps

codersbarn.com — I decided to get adventurous and see what all the fuss was about. So, I'm going to record my experiences as I try to "do something" with Silverlight! Fasten your seat belt and come on a drive-along. read more...

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