Month: June, 2005

Mountaingoat.com is a great resource for agile development

25 June, 2005 (08:20) | Software Architecture | 1 comment

Aside from the fact that the name of the site just kills me. Its chockful of good information. Here, for example, is a pdf that discusses different agile leadership styles needed for different team capabilities. Not sure if real world teams can be defined as cut and dry as this, but the article is definetly […]

A tool that automatically formats your sql statement in any language

25 June, 2005 (08:13) | .NET Tools | No comments

Keith has a link and screenshot of this interesting tidbit.
“This tool can format your sql statements to any language. The program supports C#, VB/VB.NET, ASP, Java and Delphi. It even utilizes the StringBuilder object if its available for the selected language. And best of all, IT’s FREE! ”
link here

ASp.NET Content Management

21 June, 2005 (18:32) | General, .NET | No comments

Lately I’ve been looking at various CMS systems. I cam across the Dozing Dogs primarily because of the unusual name. In the next few days I’d have to take some time and investigate further.

TechEd 2005 Webcast Series

21 June, 2005 (18:27) | Software Architecture | No comments

Just a link to a bunch of webcasts available for TechEd 2005 click here

RSS To Carry Spyware Before Year Is Out

12 June, 2005 (06:36) | General | No comments

Bill and Alice note a very crappy trend being discussed at the Gartner Security Summit. Namely that spyware builders have their sights set on Firefox and RSS. And I thought comment spam was difficult….
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.NET Framework Developer Center: New Recommendations for Using Strings in .NET 2.0

4 June, 2005 (19:13) | .NET, Asp.Net 2.o | No comments

Via Mike Gunderloy - a very nice discussion of reasons why InvariantCulture is deprecated in 2.0 Read More

Behind Closed Doors

3 June, 2005 (05:22) | General | 2 comments

That is actually the intriguing title of a new book by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby being released by The Pragmatic Bookshelf ( you know… publishers of “The Pragmatic Programmer”) . It describes the first few weeks on the job of a newly minted software development manager. I had an opportunity to review […]

Know Thy Code: Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services — MSDN Magazine, June 2005

3 June, 2005 (04:46) | .NET, .NET Code Related | No comments

Roy Osherove discusses the uses of Enterprise Services (Transactions) in a database connected test scenario. The idea is that restoring even a small SQL Server db to a nown state before each test can take a loooong time. So…. transactions to the rescue. Nice idea. Read More