Tools & Methods

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product...

1 replies - 1132 views - 11/06/09 by DaveMBush in News

31 Days of Refactoring eBook

This August, 

0 replies - 450 views - 10/22/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 3,4 & 5 (Michael Feathers)

In our late

0 replies - 346 views - 10/20/09 by markhneedham in News

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 1387 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Understanding the NHibernate Type System

This article is taken from NHibernate in Action from Manning Publications. This article delves into the NHibernate type system. For the table of contents, the...

0 replies - 1381 views - 10/08/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward

Software Engineering is such a nascent practice that we have very little that we can point at for facts, and instead spend much of our time listening to...

1 replies - 1193 views - 10/08/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Coding: Rules of Thumb

I recently came across a post by Ayende where he talks about the need for tests to justify themselves and describes his approach to testing which doesn't...

0 replies - 1227 views - 10/05/09 by markhneedham in News

Be More Efficient And Don’t Read This

Something that gets continually drilled into everyone’s head is that in order to become more efficient we need to eliminate all the noise in our personal and...

1 replies - 1061 views - 09/21/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Authors Say: Create a Culture of Performance

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 3, 2009 — Microsoft employees Joey Fitts and Bruno Aziza surveyed the business-book landscape and found it lacking. There seemed to...

0 replies - 280 views - 09/03/09 by alashcraft in Announcements

The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling.

Back when I was a VB developer, we used to wrap every single function with an exception handler. We would catch it and write it to a log. More sophisticated...

1 replies - 1610 views - 08/20/09 by mikehadlow in News

Quality Sounds Good...I Think.

Thanks to recent legislation passed by the United States Congress, many people in American are trading in their old run-down gas guzzling cars for much more...

0 replies - 624 views - 08/19/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Microsoft Debuts New Episode of Interactive, Online Business Series Starring Jack and Suzy Welch

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 10, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. launched a new episode in its Web series “It’s Everybody’s Business with Jack & Suzy Welch,”...

0 replies - 190 views - 08/11/09 by alashcraft in Announcements

Nobody Has a Duty to Teach

At the last conference I attended, Scott Hanselman hosted a session called – Why So Mean? (entire Kyte video here).

1 replies - 742 views - 07/27/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Refactor Your Way To Success

I seem to always start writing posts on software architecture, and quite rarely do I end up finishing them, much less posting them. I think one reason is that...

0 replies - 937 views - 07/23/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Coding: Quick feedback

One of the most important things to achieve if we are to get any sort of productivity when writing code is to find ways to get the quickest feedback...

0 replies - 628 views - 07/21/09 by markhneedham in News