C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0
For those who aren't familiar with Duck Typing, here is the definition from Wikipedia In computer programming, duck typing is a style of dynamic... more »
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Software Market: Hurray for More Regulation!
With doom and gloom dominating the news, and that’s only on the economic front, one hopeful scenario that can be dragged out of the current... more »
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Deleting code
This may seem obvious, but I guess it isn't, because of the variety of other ways developers have of deleting code. Here's how to delete... more »
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The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White
If I could take ten software development books to a desert island, The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White would be one of them. Of... more »
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Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems
There are several problems with ASP.NET MVC application when deployed on IIS 6.0: Extensionless URLs give 404 unless some URL Rewrite module is... more »
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Beyond Technical Debt
What happens to code when you don’t refactor? Anyone with any experience knows the answer. It gets messy. It becomes hard to change and the rate at... more »
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Programming Optimization
This is a page about the elusive subject of program performance optimization. Before you proceed towards such lofty goals, you should examine your... more »
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Application Resiliency: Unlock the Hidden Features of Windows Installer
Windows Installer has several features that have largely gone unnoticed by the development community. These features allow an application to repair... more »
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Does Bad Writing Reflect Poor Programming Skills?
The thing is, coding is also a communication skill. Jack Ganssle in his Embedded Muse e-newsletter recently quoted Doug Abbott: When you write a... more »
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Tips & Tricks: Use DebuggerDisplayAttribute for easier debugging
When debugging, it's common to hover over an object to get a quick view of what its properties are. With a single object this is fine because you can... more »
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Software Engineering is a Joke.
During my studies at the university we had a course called "Software Engineering". The professor of this course strongly believed in the fact that... more »
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JavaScript Context Menu Control
Around some one and half years ago I had created a Context Menu to display on the GridView control to perform some actions in a project. That project... more »
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Foundations of Programming - pt 8 - Back to Basics: Exceptions
Exceptions are such powerful constructs that developers can get a little overwhelmed and far too defensive when dealing with them. This is unfortunate... more »
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Foundations of Programming - Part 6 - NHibernate
The single greatest barrier preventing people from adopting domain driven design is the issue of persistence. My own adoption of O/R mappers came with... more »
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Quality With a Name
I'm passionately interested in software design. It stems back to a transformative experience I had as a young geek. I was sixteen or seventeen years... more »
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The Dark Side of Extensions
One of the best things-- if not the best thing-- about Firefox is the rich, vibrant ecosystem of add-ons that has grown up around it. Almost anything... more »
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How to Stop Google Indexing Your Site. A Bedtime Story.
We had an interesting (read: aggravating) issue with search engines. Some could see us, some couldn't. It was driving us nuts. Below is a quick... more »
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