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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...

McConnel discusses good and bad names for constants.

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...

UPDATE: Whoops! I linked to the wrong versions of putty and pageant. I corrected the links. UPDATE: June 1, 2006 Sourceforge has changed the CVSROOT in use for each proje...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I was thinking about alternative ways to block comment spam the other day and it occurred to me that there’s potentially a simpler solution than the Invisible Captcha a...

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

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. - Ambrose Bierce We expect that experienc...

“There are very few true artists in computer programming, most are just house painters.” - Tim Bryce’s Law Management consultant Tim Bryce doesn’...

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

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

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. - Wikipedia Why it is so difficult to understand the nature of the Softwa...