June 2007 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

Switch Statements with Enums best practice

Over the years I have come to the conclusion when working with switch statements that switches on enum values, a DEFAULT block MUST be required. Not only should it be required, I think it should throw a developer exception. *** NOTE *** My stance on this...

Published 06-26-2007 7:08 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology, .Net, Opinion, Best Practice

Checking a value against an Enum (Enum.IsDefined)

Here is a simple snippet of code that I always forget and have to look up time and time again. This will check to see if a value (string or int) is a match for a enum. This can be useful when trying to load data from a database which is in key the form...

Published 06-14-2007 4:40 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, Fun Code

Code Reviews: Rules of the Game

Code reviews are thought to be painful by many, but in my opinion that can be avoided. Code reviews can be a great tool for a project to help keep the code clean and concise. Last time I talked about Code Reviews and how to make them successful , this...

Published 06-12-2007 8:41 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology

NHibernate Newbie Needs Help

See my comments below.... Figured out what stupid thing i was doing... :( All, I am trying out NHibernate for the first time and I am having some troubles getting it up and running. I have downloaded the sample app from Hibernate.org and started to look...

Published 06-04-2007 7:21 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: NHibernate, Help!!!

Rhino Mocks vs NMock: Part 1, Stubs

Over the past few months I have really started to believe in the use of Mocks. When I first started using mocks, I started with NMock (mostly because that is what we had at work). Shortly after that I started playing around with Rhino Mocks at home. Since...

Published 06-13-2007 8:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, NMock, Rhino Mocks

Developer Ramp up time, Reasons some developers ramp up faster than others

What does it really cost in terms of time/money to hire in and train a new developer? If you were to ask most in management the answer would be not much. However, if you were to ask most developers, I am sure their answer would be, a LOT. Who is right...

Published 06-19-2007 6:30 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

Code Reviews: How to be successful

Code reviews are something that not all of us like or do, but they can be very valuable. I thought I would express some of my thoughts/opinions about the benefits and pit falls of performing code reviews. Benefits of Code Reviews Performing regular and...

Published 06-11-2007 9:08 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology

On Starting a New Job, Doing it the Right Way

A few weeks ago I posted about ' Questions every Candidate should ask a potential new employer '. As I get ready to start a new journey at a new company next week I thought it may be fun to post my thoughts on what a new employee should do to be successful...

Published 06-06-2007 12:44 PM by Derik Whittaker

Enforcing Coding Standards using Resharper

I am a fan of having coding standards within a development team. I think that the standardization it brings actually allows for a better, cleaner code base (this post is not meant to discuss the pros/cons of coding standards). The problem with coding...

Published 06-28-2007 7:37 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Best Practice

Resetting your Default Language Settings in VS 2005

After you have installed Visual Studio 2005 you are prompted to ‘choose’ the default collection of settings for your environment. Depending one what choice you chose will dictate your keyboard mappings, your menu options, etc. What do you do if you don...

Published 06-18-2007 6:09 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE

Studying for MCTS 70-536, 10 Days In: My Initial thoughts

In a previous post I mentioned that my new company is having all their developers get certified. The goal is to have each developer take and pass both 70-536 and 70-526 by the end of the year. What sucks for me is that the week I started the team was...

Published 06-26-2007 6:00 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net

A Wise Man Once Said…

Today I was hit with awe inspiring words of inspiration. “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” Don’t you just love fortune cookies? In the software world shouldn't it be: "Success is going from failure to failure and still...

Published 06-08-2007 12:50 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

Don't return in a finally clause – Using .Net

There is a post on DZone today about having a return statement in a finally block. When I first read the code it thought it was odd that this was even allowed. Not to mention that any sane, rational developer would put a return in a finally block. I did...

Published 06-29-2007 1:18 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Fun Code

Loading an Image via a URL

Recently I needed to grab images via a URL for our project here at work. We basically have a web server the has tons of images for our various products in many different sizes and I wanted to be able to grab the images via a URL. I thought I would throw...

Published 06-12-2007 8:27 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net

Developer Ramp Time, Different ways a company can speed it up

In a previous post , I talked about why some developers ramp up faster than others. In this post I would like to explore ways that a company can aid in the ramp up time. In my opinion it is in the best interest of the company to make sure that all of...

Published 06-20-2007 6:00 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

June 2007 - Derik Whittaker

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