Derik Whittaker

I am looking for the name of a good Blog Authoring Tool

All, Can anyone point me towards a good (would like it to be free) blog Authoring tool? I am tired of creating the posts in notepad then having to paste them into the editor for this site. Looking for help. Thanks,

Published 04-11-2007 3:48 PM by Derik Whittaker

Opinions Wanted: When To use Anonymous Delegates, Where do you draw the line?

I am looking for feedback from the group. I would like to know where others out there draw the line when it comes to using Anonymous Delegates. Personally I like Anonymous Delegates, I think they can be simple and elegant. But I only like to use them...

Published 04-11-2007 7:54 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net

InternalsVisibleTo: Testing internal methods in .Net 2.0

Ok, so maybe I am the last person on the planet to learn about this new attribute, but oh well. Last week a co-worker of mine came across this attribute when doing some research and both of us just kinda looked at each other and smiled. See, for a long...

Published 04-09-2007 6:33 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net

Since when does QA == BA?

One shift in the industry that I have noticed over the past 12-18 months is that the Q.A. department is quickly becoming the defacto B.A. Department. Why is this? Are others out there seeing the same thing? I guess when I think about it, it kinda makes...

Published 04-05-2007 7:29 AM by Derik Whittaker

Off Topic: Company looking for a few good .Net Developers (Chicago Area)

All, I know this is a bit off topic, but we are in need a few solid .net developers and I thought I would post the job opening here. If you are interested, leave your information in a comment (I will remove the comment after I get the information) and...

Published 04-04-2007 12:04 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net

Writing Unit Tests, a simple multi-step process to getting started

One of the things I often hear when I am preaching the gospel of writing Unit Test's is that I have so much existing code, I don’t know where to start. In order to help others that have this dilemma I thought I would put together a simple multi-step plan...

Published 04-03-2007 7:48 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile

MSTest and Nunit Attributes Compared

I just came across a great blog entry that compares the different attributes in both MSTest and NUnit. In this post the author also talks about some of the differences between MSTest and NUnit. This is a great post, just wish I would have stumbled across...

Published 04-01-2007 4:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Development Tools, .Net IDE

Using Anonymous delegates as a replacement for a Switch Statement

Recently I was writing some code that interacted with a third party API for doing searching. This API would return me a single result object fore each found result for my search, but the result object it returned me was a dictionary style object. This...

Published 03-31-2007 2:44 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net

Great post about Cutting Corners from Jeremy at CodeBetter

Over at CodeBetter Jeremy has posted a really great article about cutting corners and how that leads to more problems down the road. It has been my experience that when it comes to software development we all have to cut corners from time to time to meet...

Published 03-12-2007 8:15 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

Clean Slate - Creating a Good Hierarchy in a Source Repository

It is not everyday that you get the luxury of starting from scratch when setting up a Source Repository. So when our team found out that with the installation of our new VSTS server we would also be able to create a new hierarchy for the repository we...

Published 03-09-2007 7:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

Adobe Photoshop team goes agile, and WINS

Looks like Adobe and their new VP has introduced Agile to their Photoshop team and WON big time. I think it is great that an established software company like Adobe can give Agile a try (a real try, not a 'we are going to try, but not really try') and...

Published 03-09-2007 10:13 AM by Derik Whittaker

Code Branching on a Mulitple Project Team

Everyone that has worked on any type of long term software project has had the need to branch their code at one time or another for one reason or another. Currently the team that I am on had to branch both projects (1 team, 2 projects) in the same week...

Published 03-02-2007 6:59 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Methodology

Find Stopped Working in VS 2005

How many of you out there have ever had your VS 2005 IDE find stop working? I know I have, and boy is it freaking annoying. The problem is, i have yet to determine what I do to get it to stop working. The good news is, there is a way to get it back. You...

Published 02-09-2007 8:22 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE

Tablet Design Part 2: GUI Layout/Presentation

****** NOTE ****** Sorry for the long dely in getting this post out. With the holidays and my project at work winding down (which oddly enought means work longer/harder) I really have not had much time to sit down and put togher a solid post. ****** NOTE...

Published 01-17-2007 6:38 AM by Derik Whittaker

Design Considerations for Tablet PC Development -- Part 1

I am not sure how many of you have ever needed to design an application for use on a tablet PC (an actual tablet, not a laptop with a tablet type screen), but I thought I would recount some of my trials and tribulations that I haveexperienced in the course...

Published 12-06-2006 7:51 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development

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I am looking for the name of a good Blog Authoring Tool

Opinions Wanted: When To use Anonymous Delegates, Where do you draw the line?

InternalsVisibleTo: Testing internal methods in .Net 2.0

Since when does QA == BA?

Off Topic: Company looking for a few good .Net Developers (Chicago Area)

Writing Unit Tests, a simple multi-step process to getting started

MSTest and Nunit Attributes Compared

Using Anonymous delegates as a replacement for a Switch Statement

Great post about Cutting Corners from Jeremy at CodeBetter

Clean Slate - Creating a Good Hierarchy in a Source Repository

Adobe Photoshop team goes agile, and WINS

Code Branching on a Mulitple Project Team

Find Stopped Working in VS 2005

Tablet Design Part 2: GUI Layout/Presentation

Design Considerations for Tablet PC Development -- Part 1