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?

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...

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).

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 flas...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

In my last post , I wrote about how most email validation routines are too strict when compared against what is allowed by the RFC. Initially I dismissed this phenomena as the...

Good news! SourceForge now supports using Subversion for source control! One complaint I received from developers who read my Quickstart Guide To Open Source Developm...

Joe Cheng , member of the Windows Live Writer team, just unveiled his first publicly available Windows Live Writer plugin... I’ve just released my first (publicly a...

With Ted Neward’s recent post on the morass that is Object-Relational mapping , there has been a lot of discussion going around on the topic. In the comments on Atwood...

McConnel discusses good and bad names for constants.

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 ...

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 preferen...

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....

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...

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right...

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 ...

There’s an interesting discussion in the comments on the Coding Horror blog in which Jeff suggests that Your password alone should be enough information for the ...

Before I begin, I should clarify what I mean by using a database as an API integration point . In another life in a distant galaxy far far away, I worked on a project in whi...

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...

The company has roots dating back to 1964 when Phil Knight became partners with his former track coach Bill Bowerman and the two formed Blue Ribbon Sports. This company was the...

Texas Hold ?em is a poker game that has taken the world by storm. So what is it about this particular poker game that created such a sensation? There are several points that pl...

I'm a 19 year-old girl and am pretty inexperienced when it comes to relationships. I'm scared of ending up in an unhealthy relationship like so many of my friends claim to have...