My current primary client has an annoying habit of closing for random days and half-days, including last Thursday afternoon. I decided to try to make…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Category: Tech
One of the least surprising but more significant announcements to come out of Mix ‘09 last week was the general availability of ASP.NET MVC 1.0.…
So, base rates are now down to 1.0%, and the Zero Interest Bug is not just conjecture. From The Times: “About 1,500 customers who took…
OK, dear readers, today I’d like to talk about tools. Software development isn’t really so different from traditional skilled crafts in that it is important…
Sometimes, when you join a new team as a .NET developer, the team lead proudly points you in the direction of a Word document or…
One of the multiple hats that I’m currently wearing for a client is that of SQL Server DBA. In this guise, I have recently fielded…
Earlier this week I picked up a hire car and headed over to deepest Cheshire to install an instance of Team Foundation Server 2008 for…
I started my career in professional software development a decade or so ago by testing and fixing banking code that had fallen victim to the…
Earlier today a dev came over to ask me about a compiler warning he was getting when building a .NET solution: MSB3247: Found conflicts between…
Interesting article from Patrick Smacchia (the NDepend guy) in which he runs some benchmarks on the cost of looping in different ways over different constructs…