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REST tutorial in dialogue form.

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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...

You should try to keep your hands on keyboard. The less you touch the mouse, the more code you can write. I am trying to keep the mouse laying still and control the IDE complet...

Be inspired. Some tips that can be useful for website developers.

When the database seems to be "slow" first consider all of the following points as e.g. making a certain query absolutely unnecessary by simply using a more sophisticated algor...

What should be the qualities of the best leader for the software team: strong decisive knowledgeable or quiet supportive cooperative?

You’ve spent hours setting up your blog on your favorite blog platform just right. Good for you! So how do you maintain your blog so that it remains at the top of its game?

One surefire way to sound really really smart is to invoke a law or principle named after some long dead guy (an alive guy is acceptable too, but lacks slightly in smart points).

The System Thinking Laws from Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline” applied to Software Development.

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This article is covering password hashing, a subject which is often poorly understood by newer developers.

We know that effective communication with humans requires skills, experience and effort. It is not easy and straightforward.

At the end of an average eight-hour workday, the fingers have walked 16 miles over the keys and have expended energy equal to the lifting of 1 1/4 tons.

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...

Yogi Berra once said "it's deja vu all over again", and he was right. For each HTML/CSS template I build I find myself dealing with the same issues. How do I clear ev...

A while ago, Jeff Atwood wrote about the merits of laziness for successful software developers. Lest this become the mantra of sub-performing developers everywhere, I wante...

Today, I was taught an important lesson. The lesson of effectivity. I was attending a presentation, called "Python Django: Advanced web application in 40 minutes". Th...

David Meyer recently published a .NET class library that enables duck typing (also sometimes incorrectly described as Latent Typing as Ian Griffiths explains in hi...

UPDATE: I wrote a post with notes on getting this to work with ASP.NET 2.0. Looking around, I noticed a lot of people struggling with getting Log4Net to work with thei...

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...

While we’re on the topic of appropriate analogies for software development, my homie Micah writes a post about how certain analogies fall short, and he compares writing ...

To properly license open source source code, the license agreement must be included prominently with the source code.

Hardest part of coding is not writing code, but reading it.

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...