Disclaimer As is customary when a non-lawyer attempts to discuss the finer points of the law, I must start with a disclaimer. I know some fine lawyers, but I, sir, am not a lawy... 09/12/2007

As a kid, one of my favorite tools I had was a shiny red cased Victorinox swiss army knife. I’d carry that sucker around with me everywhere, using the main blade to tackle... 09/12/2007

Intro I have a bit of “me” time today to write some code and I thought I’d treat myself to something light and fun by building something purely for its flashin... 09/12/2007

A religious war is a very passionate conflict or argument in which each side is absolutely convinced of the objective truth of his own position on a matter of personal preference. 09/12/2007

I don’t know about you, but when I find something wordy but really worth reading on the web, I print it out. Sure, I could try reading it on my tablet, but do you really w... 09/12/2007

So you are coding along riding that TDD high when you reach the point at which your code needs to send an email. What do you do now? You might consider writing something that lo... 09/12/2007

We often hear that the current state of software development is still dysfunctional. Scott Rosenberg recently wrote a book to that effect called Dreaming In Code . He takes take... 09/12/2007

Jeff Atwood writes a great post on how to become a better programmer by not programming . For the most part, I totally agree with his premise that to become a better programmer,... 09/12/2007

In Jeff Atwood’s infamous FizzBuzz post , he quotes Dan Kegel who mentions. Less trivially, I’ve interviewed many candidates who can’t use recursion to solve a... 09/12/2007

When searching for source code in a particular language, what do the words being searched on tell you about that language? Koders.com publishes an interesting Open Source Zeitge... 09/12/2007

Jeff Atwood writes a great summary of Open Source Licenses . As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only four software licenses to worry about (open source or other... 09/12/2007

In a recent post , I compared the expressiveness of the Ruby style of writing code to the current C# style of writing code. I then went on and demonstrated one approach to achie... 09/12/2007

I don’t know about you, but every company I’ve ever worked at had a Fort Knox like system in place for deploying code to the production server. Typically, deployment... 09/12/2007

Been a short break from blogging, but I’m ready to get back to writing about Cody , I mean code! My philosophy towards Open Source Software is that the more sharing that g... 09/12/2007

System.IO.Path How often do you see code like this to create a file path? public string GetFullPath( string fileName) { string folder = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[ "s... 09/12/2007