I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot change/up the timeout on this). I have been using...
This is one of those posts that pains me to write. I blame Monorail for the pain that I am now acutely aware of in working with the Web Forms model in ASP.NET. But that's a whole other post... Dealing with the events that take place in the lifetime of a Page in WebForms is tricky once you get beyond...
Reginald Braithwaite says he'd love to hear stories about how programmers learned concepts from one language that made them better in another . This pretty neatly coincides with a post I've been meaning to make for months, so I might as well just get on with it and write something (because as...
In my last post I think I struck a cord with some people in my post 'Unit tests taking too much time'. My intent was NOT to sound like an elitist Agilist or any else of that nature. My intent was simply to put a post out there about the misperception (in my opinion) about how writing unit tests...
If you've tried to pass NHibernate objects over the wire using a webservice before, you know how painful it can be. But what about WCF? Can it ease your pain? Well, yes, of course it can. This wouldn't be a very interesting post if the answer was no. There are three main issues that needed to...
In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a few steps that need to happen to make your journey...
I've begun compiling a list of questions and discussion points for potential employers. Many of these are lifted verbatim from Joel Spolsky , Derik Whittaker , and Eric Wise . *YOINK* If anyone has more, please leave a comment and I will continue the harvest. I will also continue to update this post...
I'm always a little intimidated when I post code examples. There are a lot of smart (and opinionated) people out there reading blogs. Fear won't get us anywhere though. That said, I'm posting this example and asking for criticism. Here's the story. A school of music needs to schedule...
All software that is being developed WILL have bugs, sorry, but this IS a fact. Now I know some people and companies don't like to call them glitches in software bugs. They would rather call them issues or defects. For all I care we can call them 'WizBangs', just call them something and LOG...
Recently I gave two days worth of talks introducing an organization to agile management and development with Scrum and XP practices. I've made available the presentations and exercises for the betterment of mankind...or at least to get a few more people familiar with agile development. Going Agile...