Elizabeth Keogh has been blogging her advice for software-developer apprentices, and recommends buying and reading a selection of good software development books. I think this…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Elizabeth Keogh has been blogging her advice for software-developer apprentices, and recommends buying and reading a selection of good software development books. I think this…
There seems to have been a lack of .NET-related stuff on this blog recently, so let me show you something I cobbled together for work…
Never underestimate the stupidity of users. Or the benefits of a little field validation. One of the web-based systems I’ve been developing allows users to…
Via Eric G. Harrison – MS have developed a SQL Server Best Practices Analyser Tool. It’s like a cross between FxCop and Baseline Security Analyser,…
Ooh, this is great news: http://nxopinion.robertsoninstitute.org/blogs/rcecil/archive/2004/11/11/167.aspx It’s a little thing, to be sure, but I often find myself wanting to make a setter internal or…
Woohoo! I just passed MS exam 70-320 with a score of 936, and am now a Microsoft Certified Application Developer!
Late last night I was doing some development work on a website for our investment club. I had a strongly-typed collection of "Stock" objects, and…
There’s so much good open-source .Net development going on these days – .Text, nGallery, nUnit, etc – it’s a really interesting time to be a developer.…
A major project on which I’ve been working for the last ten months has just gone live, so I’ve had some time recently to take…
Update (25/02/2006) – Hey, we now have String.IsNullOrEmpty, you know! What’s the quickest way, in C#, to test whether a string is empty? This is…