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Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:05 GMT

When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming"

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)."

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

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

NHibernate Profiler: A guided tour

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:01:31 GMT

Ayende provides an introduction to his upcoming tools for analyzing NHibernate usage.

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!

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?

Ian talks about L2S Being killed

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:16:13 GMT

great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft.

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Advice on how to become a great developer and not just a monkey programmer.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 - dynamic keyword second look

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:16:11 GMT

A second look at the dynamic keyword and an update on the performance statistics that we looked at in Part 1.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1 - dynamic keyword

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:14 GMT

A quick look at the new "dynamic" keyword in C# 4.0 and its implications for application development.

89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Developer in the World

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:08 GMT

You can learn how to improve your programming skills, work better and enjoy it from this collection of advice from experienced developers.

The Excitement that is C# 4.0

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:01:02 GMT

I just got back from the "Future of C#" talk at PDC by Anders Hejlsberg. This was a truly inspiring talk for a geek like me. C# is evolving into a much more dynamic language. I have always been a believer of strong typing. except when I'm not. and I have been wishing for something more dynamic (such as Duck Typing). In C# 4.0, we will be seeing some significant dynamic features.

SubSonic MVC Addin

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:31:03 GMT

good work!

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

Windows Azure is born

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:46:12 GMT

Ray Ozzie announces the new new for the new Windows-in-the-cloud.

New .NET logo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:16:13 GMT

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suite our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me)....

QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:01:09 GMT

QuakeLight - Silverlight Port of Quake... 3D with Silverlight - w00t!

ScottG:October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Latest quality link collection by Scott

Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application.

Terrible Code Example - Methods From Hell

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:16:10 GMT

Learn how not to code your applications with this terrible code example that I have come accross.

ASP.NET MVC Pro's and Con's

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:16:06 GMT

Some of the main pro's and con's of the new style for building web applications (ASP.NET MVC).