Technology

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. 11/07/2007

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 achie... 09/12/2007

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, deployment... 09/12/2007

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 sharing that g... 09/12/2007

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[ "s... 09/12/2007

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 c... 09/12/2007

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 such... 09/12/2007

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 lo... 09/12/2007

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 full... 09/12/2007

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). 10/27/2007

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 their web appl... 09/12/2007

McConnel discusses good and bad names for constants. 09/12/2007

Good news! SourceForge now supports using Subversion for source control! One complaint I received from developers who read my Quickstart Guide To Open Source Development With CV... 09/12/2007

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 project. The... 09/12/2007

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 availabl... 09/12/2007