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Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive

I am sure that most of you have heard the term ‘Ivory Tower Architect’ and most of have a mental image of what this means. To me, when I hear the team I think of a person or team of washed up, has been developers who are no longer capable of creating...

Published 03-19-2009 6:31 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Rant

If you cannot do a source pull and compile you are doing it wrong!

I know this may seem like old hat to many, but trust me not all organizations/projects are setup to allow you to easily pull the code from your source repository and compile. I know it is sad, but if you ask me, this is just the tip of the ice burg...

Published 03-13-2009 1:38 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Opinion, Rant, Craftsmanship

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

In my last post ( here ) I was giving a wrap up of the Mocking session I recently did at TriNug . In that post I gave some of the reasons (sorry, I meant excuses) people gave for not doing any type of automated testing during their dally development ritual...

Published 11-14-2008 5:58 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion, Rant

Some comments are a total waste of time

I am all for comments in code (gasp I know) but some are just a total waste of time. Case in point. I came across this today. /// <summary> /// Commit Transaction. /// </summary> public void CommitTransaction() { ........ } WTF, I guess putting...

Published 09-29-2008 3:40 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Rant

Compiler warnings, the trash you forgot to take out

There was once a time where I did not care about compiler warnings, but times have changed. In fact, I remember having a debate with a fellow developer some time ago about why compiler warnings were not that bad..... Oh how times have changed. In...

Published 02-05-2008 1:45 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Best Practice, Rant

Overuse of #Regions

Before I get started, I personally am a fan of using #regions in my code. I think it cleans up everything, allowing me to only see what I want to see. I also know that many of you disagree with me, and that is fine. Here are 2 posts that voice...

Published 01-15-2008 7:56 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, Opinion, Best Practice, Rant

Object Properties, make them public ONLY when needed.

Sorry we have interrupted your daily blog reading, but we have a special service announcement for all developers. <SpecialServiceAnnouncement> Only make properties public on an object when you KNOW they are needed. Please make all properties private...

Published 01-12-2008 12:59 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion, Best Practice, Rant

Why using the index for data retrieval is evil

Today I was refactoring some sql procs along with the corresponding .net code that called the procs. My primary focus was to implement some new business rules (ways to get totals) in the proc. In doing so, I completely re-wrote the proc. In...

Published 12-28-2007 1:26 PM by Derik Whittaker

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

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

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

Rant: MCTS 70-536 Book/Practice tests has TOO many errors

Ok, this is an official rant about the .Net Framework 2.0 70-536 Self-Paced Training Kit. I understand that writing a book is difficult, I understand that creating 302 practice test is also difficult. Buy my god, people are using these materials as study...

Published 07-24-2007 7:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Feedback, Opinion, Rant

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Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive

If you cannot do a source pull and compile you are doing it wrong!

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Some comments are a total waste of time

Compiler warnings, the trash you forgot to take out

Overuse of #Regions

Object Properties, make them public ONLY when needed.

Why using the index for data retrieval is evil

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

If the code is dead, then bury it

Rant: MCTS 70-536 Book/Practice tests has TOO many errors