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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 programm...

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 ...

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 Ze...

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 oth...

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 ach...

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, deploymen...

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 shari...

System.IO.Path How often do you see code like this to create a file path? public string GetFullPath( string fileName) { string folder = ConfigurationManager.A...

Most of the time when I’m testing my code, I only test it using the en-US culture since, ...well..., I speak English and I live in the U.S. Isn’t the U.S. the only ...

Testing code written for the web is challenging. Especially code that makes use of the ASP.NET intrinsic objects such as the HttpRequest object. My goal is to make testing suc...

In the The Mythical Man-Month , Fred Brooks highlights an eye opening disparity in productivity between good and poor programmers ( emphasis mine ). Programming managers...

Have you ever wanted to take a look at the internals of the .NET Framework? Sure you can (and should) fire up Reflector and see the Base Class Libraries, but what about the f...