November 2007 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

Source Control, works for code, why not use it for SQL Scripts

Pretty much any developer with half a brain (or any real world experience) knows that you MUST keep your source code in some sort of source code repository. There are many of them out there, VSS, Vault, TFS, CVS, SVN, the list goes on. If putting your...

Published 11-21-2007 8:28 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Opinion, Best Practice, Rant

Things I am thankful for...

In celebration of Thanksgiving tomorrow, i thought i would list out some of things that i am thankful for in the development world. Open source tools RhinoMocks NUnit StructureMap Reflector The great blogs of the blogosphere Having 3 monitors (sooo much...

Published 11-21-2007 7:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor, Opinion

Initial thoughts on VS 2008 and .Net 3.5

As I am sure most of you are aware, Microsoft has released the VS 2008 IDE to MSDN subscribers yesterday. I decided to give it a download and take it for a twirl. I thought I would must dump a few random thoughts from my hour or so of 'playing'...

Published 11-20-2007 8:35 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE, Feedback, Opinion

I knew I choose the wrong career choice

I know this is way off topic, but oh well As a software developer I make a nice living, I have a nice house, own a nice car, have money in the bank, I really don't have too many wants. But I now know I made the wrong career choice. Today it was announced...

Published 11-15-2007 12:13 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

If the code is dead, then bury it

This post is just a quick rant, brain dump, food for thought or what ever. If you ever need to make changes to existing code base, and you need to remove old code. DELETE IT, don't EVER COMMENT IT OUT AND LEAVE IT FOR THE NEXT GUY (yes, I am trying...

Published 11-14-2007 3:38 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Best Practice, Rant

If at first you don't succeed, try/catch it again

I came across this gem today when I was rolling out an upgrade for one of our legacy web sites. try { if(Request.QueryString.Get("skin").Length > 0) sSkinCode = Request.QueryString.Get("skin"); else sSkinCode = GetSiteName();<...

Published 11-13-2007 1:57 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

Windows Live Writer out of Beta (finally)

Today I was having an connectivity issue with my Windows Live Writer so I started googling for a solution. I came across the home page for Windows Live Writer, and I noticed that it was finally out of beta. YEA. I would recommend to anyone using this...

Published 11-11-2007 7:21 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out

OpenWinForms.com - An open source resource for WinForms controls

Today I came across a posting for OpenWinForms.com , this is a site that is setup to be a resource for all things WinForms. The site contains various different controls/libraries as well as different articles on how to do cool stuff with .net and WinForms...

Published 11-11-2007 7:17 AM by Derik Whittaker

Chicago MOSSCamp Followup

Yesterday I spent the afternoon in lovely downtown Chicago at MOSSCamp 2007. The turnout for this was great. Actually, there were more people then there was room for (about the only negative on the day). The day started out great. There was a nice group...

Published 11-10-2007 3:38 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

Failing builds, the sound of silence

I'm sure that everyone has heard the riddle ' If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?' . This riddle is all about observation and knowledge of reality. Well, I have a riddle for software teams following...

Published 11-07-2007 7:00 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Methodology, TDD, Humor, Opinion

Subclassing for Success

As someone how has been designing and developing WinForms based applications for the past 7+ years, I have learned that subclassing UI controls is a must. You may be thinking, why would I want to subclass a text box? Or a combo box? The answer is simple...

Published 11-02-2007 7:36 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology, WinForms, Opinion, Featured

Sir, please put the Blackberry away

This is WAY off topic here, but I just have to say this. Our society is way too connected. We have everything from 5 year olds with cell phones and 85 year olds with blog postings. But sometimes we need to just put the Blackberry down for a 3 minutes...

Published 11-01-2007 11:42 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor, Opinion

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