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Improve Your Blog's Reach With These 20 Essential Web Utilities

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? 02/03/2009

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Who Owns the Copyright for An Open Source Project

To properly license open source source code, the license agreement must be included prominently with the source code. 04/18/2009

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A Testing Mail Server For Unit Testing Email Functionality

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

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I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC

Raise your hand if you know how to validate an email address. For those of you with your hand in the air, put it down quickly before someone sees you. It’s an odd site to... 09/12/2007

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The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rather Than Reu

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 ; return... 09/12/2007

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Unit Tests Do Cost More To Write...

One common objection I hear to TDD and writing unit tests is that it creates a lot of extra work to develop software. And this is true, but it does not give a complete picture.... 09/12/2007

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Design Patterns Isn’t a Golden Hammer

One trap that developers need to be wary of is the mentality of the Hammer Truism . This states that When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This... 09/12/2007

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There Is No Perfect Design

Many developers, especially those fresh out of college (though older developers are just as prone), fall into the trap of believing in an absolute concept of “the perfect... 09/12/2007

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