I just read Ron Jefferies latest post entitled My Named Cloud is Better Than Your Named Cloud and it got me riled up enough to post something I've been meaning to write about for at least a couple of years. His post touches on the point I'd wanted to make, but doesn't quite say it as simply...
Often times as developers who understand what computers can do is really limitless, we seek to automate everything. The holy grail is being able to sit at where everything is accomplishable with a simple double-click. Often times automation, however wonderful or geek drool inspiring, is not cost effective...
In preparing my talk on Regular Expressions that I'll be giving this upcoming weekend at the Chicago Code Camp I decided to repost this article which I originally posted in February of last year. Rereading the information contained within my position or thoughts on developers and regular expression...
Over the past few weeks I have been presenting at a few .Net user groups and one of the questions I asked prior to each session was the number of people who have some sort of CI/build server for their team. Now keep in mind I qualified this question by stating that this build server could be a...
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but someone's got to put a stop to the IoC love fest going on out there. An Inversion of Control (IoC) container , for those of you were aren't yet familiar, allows you to retrieve instances of objects at runtime. A relatively common solution to a common...