Ever since the var keyword was released in C#, I’ve struggled with using it. To me var felt like using variant or object in VB,…
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It’s easy to get wrapped up in the technology you use, thinking everyone is using it because everyone you interact with is using it. But…
At the recent Ann Arbor Day of .Net, my colleague David Giard arranged an excellent panel discussion with Jim Holmes, Mike Eaton, Jay Harris, Patrick…
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the Loveletter (ILOVEYOU) worm. This was the first real virus/worm that I ever experienced that actually took down a…
I’ve run across some great blog posts lately, and decided I needed to share and keep track of them: Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas at Coding…
Wriju has a gread roundup of eBooks/guidance available on CodePlex.
There is an article in Dr. Dobbs that describes a survey performed by the author. The survey was intended to query Project Managers, IT Managers,…
Got my new November Dr. Dobbs issue today. The back column “Swaine’s Flames” has reminded me of some programming “laws” that I have seen before.…
We all spend lots of time delving into the technical aspects of our work, but don’t forget who we are creating all these wonderful apps…
A recent post by Lamont Harrington asks about the proper methods for exception handling: “Should exceptions be bubbled up the call stack and be unwound…