I am pleased to announce that the next installment in the Autumn Of Agile screencast series is now available for immediate download from the main web site.
Good news, Bad news
The good news is that this is the installment where we finally start to write some code! The bad news is that this installment clocks [...]
If you followed the Summer of NHibernate screencast series then you know that I use CodeRush and RefactorPro from DevExpress as Visual Studio add-ins to help supercharge my development experience (yes, I know that Resharper gets all the publicity, but I happen to prefer the CodeRush + RefactorPro approach to solving my extensibility needs, so [...]
Its somewhat funny to me how the usual ‘knock’ against Open Source Software is the poor quality of the documentation that often accompanies it. “Why can’t we have professional quality, comprehensive documentation for these OSS projects just like the really solid, professional quality documentation that comes from — oh, I don’t know — Microsoft for [...]
If you haven’t already heard, Microsoft is actually doing the previously-unthinkable and bundling the truly incredible JQuery library into future versions of Visual Studio (incl. Express), the ASP.NET MVC beta/CTP releases, and presumably anything else web-y that they release in the future. They will be providing integrated support for intellisense with JQuery methods in the [...]
I have just been proven wrong, and this happens so infrequently that it warrants its own blog post (kidding!)
In a number of the installments of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series, I have repeatedly made the assertion that when one makes a change to an embedded resource in their Visual Studio project, the developer [...]
I have received a significant amount of feedback on the content in the Summer of NHibernate screencast series that I have been producing and let me say a quick ‘thank you’ to everyone for offering your input — its great to hear what people are thinking about what I’m doing, how I’m doing it, and [...]
As anyone who knows me is well-aware, I am a confirmed tool-addict. If there is a utility, framework, add-in, add-on, or plug-in I want to have read about it, tried it, evaluated it, and decided for myself whether its worth keeping in my developer’s tool belt. As a professional software developer, I’m unashamedly and unrepentantly [...]
This post is about catching up on some outstanding items that I wanted to respond to based on feedback I have received from various members of the community in connection with the Summer of NHibernate screencast series I have been publishing.
Thanks for the Donations
First things first: I want to offer a BIG thank-you to everyone [...]
At my current organization, we have been having a number of debates over the past 6-8 months about the relative benefits of writing unit tests for our code. The opponents (ok, I will give the benefit of the doubt and call them ’skeptics’ instead) trot out all the usual suspects here to bolster their skepticism: [...]
While reasonable people can choose to disagree about the value of in-line code comments for the sake of describing what the code is actually doing — many take the opinion that if your code needs comment to be clear, its not clear code — it seems that even people that are against code comments as [...]
