Autumn of Agile: Iteration 1 Part A screencast is available
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 […]
Visual Studio
CodeRush Xpress (completely free) is Announced
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 […]
T4 Templating Engine to the Rescue (sort of~!)
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, […]
Holy Crap! Microsoft Cozies up to JQuery
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 […]
I am WRONG (and big enough to admit it!)
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 […]
Technical Screencast Considerations
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 […]
Confessions of a Developer Tool Hound
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 […]
Odds and Ends
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 […]
Unit Testing isn’t going to save you time…now (but it won’t cost you either)!
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 […]
Where Should Your Visual Studio Tasks Go?
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 […]