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I recently posted that everyone should read The Dip and I try to follow Seth's advice pretty closely. The current "dip" I'm slugging through is organizing CodeStock - which means I have to "quit" or ignore many other things to focus on getting through this dip. ...
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First, I want to give a shout out to Knoxville's "front man" Wally McCulre for including a spot on his latest ASP.NET Podcast for Codestock! (full disclosure - and apologies - it's me in the spot). Big thanks to Wally! So what is the CodeStock After Party ? It's a time...
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About a year ago I created a few posts on the topic of Developer Ramp time and how companies can help the process as well as why different developers ramp up at different speeds . Developer ramp time and how companies can aid in speeding up this time is critical not only to a new employee's...
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Background - Some people don't like the Entity Framework, some do. Many see the need to blog about it. You can guess the rest, or JFGI if your need more info. The debate is nothing new; we have databases that are really good at storing data, searching that data, and spitting it back up...
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by: Glenn Goodrich This post is the winner of The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway . The story you are about to read is true. The names and identities of the innocent have been changed to protect them and my job. No animals were harmed in the writing of this story. Roughly three to five years ago I was an...
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We've just finished tallying up our votes for the Great Devlicio.us Giveaway and we are pleased to announce that the winner is Glenn Goodrich . We had enough entries to make the contest worthwhile and we decided to give prizes for every story. Everyone got one of the books in the original list and...
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After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at. Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's not going anywhere. However, I will not be making...
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Because there's more than one kind of hero Update: The contest is now closed. We cannot accept any more entries. Wait for the winner announcement is a few days. Thanks for all the great submissions. Here's your chance to win a well-deserved prize for being a good developer — and not just any...
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A few weeks ago while putting together a screencast series on how to use NUnit (and a basic intro to testing) I got the bright idea to launch a new site. I wanted to create a site that allows myself (and others in the future) to create, host and share short (about 10 minutes -- hence the name dimecasts...
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I've been slack lately on posting, mostly because I'm still running around speaking and working on the details of CodeStock . So I figure a "must read book list" is great filler until I finish up that SilverLight 2.0 series of posts. Instead of the normal development and...
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Anyone that is a practitioner of testing or specially TDD knows that the quality of your tests are a direct measure in the assumed quality of your tested code. Better put, if your tests suck, you can assume very low quality from your code. So what is harder, writing quality code or writing quality...
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Roy makes a number of accusations about the Alt.net community, particularly centred around their espoused ideals clashing with their comments and blogs. I respect Roy greatly, his blog was one of my first real sources for great TDD information, and he has consitently put out great blog posts and software...
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Recently I was giving a Mocking presentation and I made the statement that I prefer strict mocking semantics over loose semantics. At the end of presentation one of the members of the audience raised point to my liking strict over loose. We had a great discussion and I thought I would regurgitate...
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It struck me that a good reading list is always welcome to find, and while I suspect most of these books are not entirely new to you, I thought it a good idea to list what I think is the basis of any good development library. Start with these books and you cannot go far wrong, what they teach will be...
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Originally this series was meant to be titled 'Any thing you can do I can do better', but to be honest after writing the Xml/XPath examples I realized the XLinq is really no better per say than Xml/XPath. However, what XLinq does bring to the table that Xml/XPath does not: Does not need...