I last took a close look at NDepend over 18 months ago back in December of 2008 in this blog post. At that time, I spent some time looking at some of its higher-level features and shared some of my impressions of the tool. Now, some time later I’ve returned to the tool and I [...]
I’m very excited to be able to announce that as of this past Monday July 12th, 2010 I have officially begun work in my new position as a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. This opportunity represents the next (interesting) step in my software development career and I’m looking very forward to the kinds of things [...]
In case you care (and if you’re reading this I’ll have to assume that either you’re terrible at using search engines to find relevant content on the Internet or else you’re here on purpose and so you probably DO care), my interview on the Community Megaphone Podcast is now published and can be downloaded from [...]
Every day I have a bus commute in and out of Manhattan from Staten Island that takes anywhere from between 45 minutes on the low side to about an hour and a half on the high side (well, that’s not entirely accurate—I’ve had some commutes that have taken over three hours, but fortunately only when [...]
Well, the event evaluation forms for last weekend’s NYC CodeCamp are IN and have been tallied. And the winner is…
Just kidding. There is no winner because this year we decided to do a few things differently than in years past:
Eval forms didn’t contain numeric scoring for pre-defined categories (e.g., “Speaker was knowledgable about their topic”, [...]
>Whew!< After a pretty crazy January and February of preparation leading up to the event, I’m really pleased to announce that the 4th Annual NYC CodeCamp is officially OVER (Thank God!). This past Saturday March 6th, 2010 we held the actual event and I have to say that based on just about every metric I [...]
Next Thursday evening (2/4/2010) from 6:00pm-9:00pm I’ll be speaking at the Philadelphia Alt.NET user group on real-world Domain Driven Design implementation patterns in .NET.
The full title of the session is going to be “Lessons from the Trenches: Pragmatic Implementation Patterns for DDD in .NET” and the overview synopsis will be:
In this session, we’ll take a [...]
This is a public call for greater community participation in the Virtual Alt.Net online community for 2010 and beyond.
What is Virtual Alt.Net?
Virtual Alt.Net is an online community that met weekly over the past year or so utilizing Live Meeting as a platform for exposing as many people as possible to software development concepts and [...]
in a recent request for the Proteus Project, a user asked about defining test-related settings in external .config files to control connection strings settings, the location(s) of support files like the serialized dataset xml data files and the dataset xsd schema files, and possibly other things. While it might be of value to ‘formalize’ this [...]
I’m happy to announce that I have managed to complete a new plugin for the DeveloperExpress Refactor!Pro product: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject.
You can download a binary of the the new plugin here.
Why Would Anyone Need This?
Users of the DevExpress Refactor!Pro tool will probably be aware of the built-in Move Type to File refactoring that does exactly what its [...]
