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Nigel Parkers Outside Line, March 16, 2010
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In our hotel room after Day 1 of MIX Gus from NV Interactive and I had an hour to kill for dinner. 20 minutes later wed managed to port the existing NZ Cricket Match Centre into a Windows Phone 7 Seri...
Karl Seguin [MVP], March 9, 2010
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I once posted a semi-serious post entitled The 7 Phases of Unit Testing. The phases are:
Refuse to unit test because "you don't have enough time"
Start unit testing and immediately star...
Steven Smith, March 2, 2010
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Yesterday I was looking at some old code and refactoring it to clean it up (in this case I wasnt the original author, but Ive written code just like this). The application in question was a simp...
Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, February 21, 2010
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In my last post I discussed how some creative thinking on my part led me to redo large chunks of a task scheduling library. As promised, here are some of the major changes and what I learned from them...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, February 9, 2010
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I often receive questions about topics covered in one or another of my books, and I respond, most often, privately. Every once in a while, however, a question comes along that may be of more general i...
the telerik blogs, January 29, 2010
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Here's a short list of what we've managed to achieve during the last 2+ months since we released JustCode in November: Weve fixed a lot of C# / VB.NET and JavaScript "Good Code Red" issues. "Good ...
Simple Talk, January 28, 2010
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The very best software is almost always originally the creation of a single person. Readers of our 'Geek of the Week' will know of a few of them. Even behemoths such as MS Word or Excel started ...
The ASPx Blog, January 28, 2010
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Mark Miller challenged all developers to a coding contest last year at PDC 2009. Many tried, including some top notch talent like Scott Hanselman and Steve Smith. However, only 2 developers were succe...
the telerik blogs, January 22, 2010
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When I originally announcedJustCode in an earlier post, I described its solution wide analysis feature as "its like having a compiler running all the time with the only difference being that it runs ...
The ASPx Blog, January 4, 2010
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Check out this review of the CodeRush Test Runner from Will Green: I've been using CodeRush Xpress since a little after it was first announced, and every new release has gotten better and be...
ISerializable, December 31, 2009
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Having seen enough crappy unit tests to last me a lifetime, I think there should be a parallel to the old red-green-refactor (from TDD) its evil twin brother should be Brown-Green-Refactor wherin y...
Dot Net Radio, December 28, 2009
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The first question you may have in reading the title to this post is what is a Brownfield application? The book opens up a discussion on this topic with this opening line: An industrial Brownfield...
ISerializable, December 23, 2009
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Corey Haines recreated my TDD Kata on his KataCasts blog. (click here to learn more about TDD katas) Since Corey is an experienced TDD practitioner I was honored that hed given it a go, and was...
The ASPx Blog, December 16, 2009
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Do you remember the challenge Mark Miller laid down for this years PDC conference? Yes, that insane challenge where he would use an XBOX guitar and no keyboard! Check out this video of Mark Miller...
The Moth, December 7, 2009
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blog post brain dump, I'll attempt to describe the process my team tries to follow when dealing with new bug reports (specifically, code defect reports). This is not official Microsoft policy, just th...
The Moth, December 7, 2009
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blog post brain dump, I'll attempt to describe the process my team tries to follow when dealing with new bug reports (specifically, code defect reports). This is not official Microsoft policy, just th...
Mehfuzs WebLog, December 7, 2009
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Yesterday , i was reading Clean Code by Uncle Bob. While i was doing so , i came across a line that really stuck my thought patterns and i would like to share it with my readers as well. The line loo...
The Moth, December 6, 2009
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In this blog post brain dump, I'll attempt to describe the process my team tries to follow when dealing with new bug reports (specifically, code defect reports). This is not official Microsoft policy,...
peterkellner.net, December 4, 2009
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This one is just to amazing to not blog about. Ive been a die heart ReSharper user for quite a while and recently have started using their early access versions. Primarily...
This...
the telerik blogs, November 23, 2009
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ASP.NET Announcements, November 18, 2009
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TELERIK IMPROVES DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY WITH NEW VISUAL STUDIO CODING ASSISTANCE TOOL
JustCode
provides fast, solution-wide real-time code analysis
and error checking, unobtrusive code navigat...
the telerik blogs, November 18, 2009
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It's my pleasure to announce the youngest member of the Telerik product family - JustCode, a code analysis and refactoring tool. Actually "youngest" is not the most correct word to use because JustC...
K. Scott Allen, November 2, 2009
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I had some data on a Cruzer flash drive I wanted to protect, and I just discovered how easy it use to use BitLocker on a flash drive (thanks to Hanselman, who pointed this out in one sentence at the e...
The ASPx Blog, October 27, 2009
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Check out the CodeRush Metric Shader plugin video with Rory Becker. Rorys created for you another useful plugin that helps you visualize code metrics! Check out the video to see what I mean: Th...
Did it with .NET, October 24, 2009
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Now that Visual Studio
2010 Beta 2 is finally out the door, Ive had a bit more time to spend coding
on some of my personal projects. Yesterday, I happened upon a cool trick while using
...
Code Climber, October 22, 2009
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This August, Sean Chambers, blogger on Los Techies, wrote an awesome series of posts, called 31 Days of Refactoring, during which he wrote on post per day, describing one refactoring technique. Since...
Steven Smith, October 22, 2009
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Tonight at Hudson Software Craftsmanship, I paired with another group member and worked on the PotterKata for the first time. Id seen NotMyself write about it a few days ago, which prompted me t...
The ASPx Blog, October 5, 2009
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Check out this short seven minute CodeRush plugin screencast with Rory Becker. The screencast explains: What is DX_CollapseFromEnd? How do you use it? How was it built? Rory is not just an...
DevX: .NET Feed, September 25, 2009
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Use Visual Studio's refactoring features to extract class methods into an interface....
Karl Seguin [MVP], September 12, 2009
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Writing effective unit tests is as much about the test itself as it is about the code under test. All the experience in the world isn't going to help you write clean and meaningful tests against h...
Jeffrey Palermo, September 11, 2009
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On Sept 19, from 0900-1200, Mahendra Mavani is teaching a refactoring workshop in Austin, TX. Its free. Just make sure to sign up to ensure your seat. This workshop is going to be facilit...
Brendan Kowitzs Web Log - Yes means I understand, however, it does not correspond to action., September 3, 2009
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Recently Id had the opportunity to begin exploring code through the eyes of NDepend. Ive pointed NDepend at my code, open source projects, code at work, just about anything Ive had the time to load in...
Steven Smith, August 28, 2009
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One of the ways we improve as software developers is through practice. Practice isnt just something thats done as you go about your job it has to be focused on improving your skills. ...
ISerializable, August 24, 2009
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We just finished day 1 of TDD master class in Norway. Heres what people had to say about TDD and Pair Programming which they did half of the day: When doing TDD it is: Easier to isolate a...
Brendan Kowitzs Web Log - Yes means I understand, however, it does not correspond to action., August 19, 2009
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On occasions Im sure Im one of many that take advantage of the CR_ClassCleaner plug-in for CodeRush.
For one reason or another the other day, I somehow managed to bork some of the shortcut keys which...
youve been HAACKED, August 17, 2009
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In a recent post, The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise, I wanted to peer into the dark depths of the Law of Demeter to understand its real purpose. In the end I concluded that the real go...
ASP.NET Announcements, August 12, 2009
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Scott Hanselman will be visiting the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) and doing an open Q&A session via Live Meeting.
This is a free event (we have absolutely no intentions of ever charging for ou...
eXtensible mind, August 11, 2009
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Compile-time safety is always important, as it reduces the chances that a refactoring can break existing code that compiles successfully. This benefit took me previously to the path of using expressio...
eXtensible mind, August 10, 2009
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Compile-time safety is always important, as it reduces the chances that a refactoring can break existing code that compiles successfully. This benefit took me previously to the path of using expressio...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 21, 2009
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I got enough feedback and suggestions that I figured it would be better just to put the code up on CodePlex rather than package zips on my blog :-). Here it is: FloatableWindow project. The latest bui...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 21, 2009
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I got enough feedback and suggestions that I figured it would be better just to put the code up on CodePlex rather than package zips on my blog :-). Here it is: FloatableWindow project. The latest bui...
Method ~ of ~ failed, July 21, 2009
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I got enough feedback and suggestions that I figured it would be better just to put the code up on CodePlex rather than package zips on my blog :-). Here it is: FloatableWindow project. The latest bui...
Steven Smith, June 11, 2009
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Sarah suggested Tuesday that I write a blog PostFormatter that only changed the format of blog posts created on days that were Fibonacci Sequence days (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8). Id hoped to code some...
Fervent Coder, June 10, 2009
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NOTE: Subversion's new tree conflicts feature is something you need to learn about. Otherwise it will bite you later and you will be left with an uncommitted change and confusion about how to get it c...
The Visual Basic Team, May 15, 2009
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CodeRush Xpress is a FREE Visual Studio 2008 add-in containing 60+ refactorings, 7 editing features, and full support for C# and Visual Basic. Download here CodeRush Xpress includes the following f...
Did it with .NET, May 15, 2009
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Last October, DevExpress released a massively
powerful FREE tool specifically for
C# developers called CodeRush Xpress. Today, in partnership with Microsoft, DevExpress
has outdone themselves wit...
Federal Developer Weblog, May 14, 2009
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NOTE: This was cross posted from here. This week marks my 5 year anniversary at Microsoft. Five years ago, I stopped being a real developer and became an evangelist. Ok, I started with a ...
Jeffrey Palermo, May 14, 2009
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I use domain-driven design, and one of the core patterns in DDD is the entity. I wont go into a description of aggregates or aggregate roots, but the entity is a central pattern when implementin...
The ASPx Blog, May 12, 2009
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Check out this 4 minute Scott Hanselman video interview. Scott was kind enough to drop by the DevExpress booth and share his thoughts on:
Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tool List
CodeRush...
Method ~ of ~ failed, May 10, 2009
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Ive seen a few comments/requests incoming lately that people like the ChildWindow control in the Silverlight SDK. This is a great control that creates a modal dialog for you. When you use it, it disab...