This may be a somewhat late-in-the-game post since its really been quite some time since the release of this thing, but I was just spending some time organizing some previously-downloaded files on my laptop and I stumbled across my copy of the Foundations of Programming E-Book by Karl Seguin.
Kindred Spirit
Every now and then in your [...]
As readers of my blog are likely aware, I am a big fan of the CodeRush and Refactor Pro! products from Developer Express. I know that Resharper (for whatever reasons) has much of the mindshare in the rest of the ALT.NET community, but for a variety of reasons I tend to prefer the Developer Express [...]
Sorry for the delay, but I’m happy to announce that as of now the code samples for both PART A and PART B of the Iteration 01 installments for the Autumn of Agile screencasts have now been posted to the main site for download.
As the first several installments contained no code, I got out of [...]
I am pleased to announce that after a slightly unexpected delay, the next installment in the Autumn Of Agile screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main site. I had a bit of trouble trying to determine the best way to compose this installment given that there is both a) a lot [...]
I just got off the keyboard (kind of like getting off the phone, but more Internet-centric ) with Fabio Maulo, the present project-lead for the NHibernate project and I’m quite pleased to announce that as of now I have been asked to join the NHibernate project team as a committer (oh, and also that [...]
Warning: this post won’t entirely make sense unless you first read the two other posts whose links are provided in the body of this one.
As mentioned in detail in the T4 Templatng Engine to the Rescue post, I am not a great big fan of literal strings littered all over my code (data-access or otherwise). [...]
I am going to propose a guideline for the use of C# 3.0 Extension Methods: Don’t Use Them to Rename Existing Functionality in an API Just Because You Don’t Like A Function’s Name.
The idea of extension methods is that you can improve an otherwise non-extensible object’s public API by ‘extending’ its Interface to include additional [...]
As promised, here are the preparation materials for the upcoming next installment in the Autumn of Agile screencast series.
In this installment, we will be looking at completing our first User Story (User can associate self with one or more skills) by creating our first ASP.NET MVC page, wiring up ASP.NET MVC to take advantage of [...]
Just wanted to point out that the videos for the most-recent ALT.NET NYC meeting have just been posted for viewing. In this meeting we had the benefit of a guest appearance by the famous weary traveler Oren Eini, better known as Ayende Rahien, the creator of RhinoMocks, and contributor to various well-known OSS projects like [...]
For those of you readers interested in ALT.NET User groups but too far away/too busy/too lazy to attend one yourself, a new page in the AltNetpedia site has been added to which user groups are posting videos of past group meetings: http://altnetpedia.com/videos-of-user-groups.ashx
So far there are links to videos of the ALT.NET NYC User group [...]
