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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:00 AM

Comments in Code Indicate Functions Trying To Escape

I interviewed a couple of college students earlier this week for internship positions with Lake Quincy Media , and one of them reminded me of my own college days when we were graded in part based on how well commented our code was. In school, comments
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:12 PM

Triskaidecaphobia

Office 13 is going to actually be called Office 14, since there are some people who assign some negative significance to the number 13 (see Triskaidekaphobia ). Since this is clearly a significant concern in the world of computing, it seems natural to
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Friday, April 04, 2008 10:40 AM

CruiseControl.NET Caching Old Project Locations SOLVED

As I mentioned in my previous post , we're just wrapping up a continuous integration solution for a client (and if you're not using this for your team, you should be. If you don't have time to do it, contact us to do it for you. You'll thank me later.)
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:24 AM

The Evolution of Status Pattern

An interesting pattern that I see in many of the applications I've worked with is the notion of status, and how it tends to evolve over time. This is probably familiar to most of you, though perhaps you've never thought about it. Consider the following
Posted by ssmith | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:33 PM

Two Kinds of Knowledge

Rick posted earlier today about how he's having a tougher and tougher time remembering the exact syntax and details of how to do relatively simple programming tasks , and instead finds that he's going off to find past code he's written (or blogged about)
Posted by ssmith | 5 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:16 PM

Book Recommended To Me

I just ordered this book on the recommendation of a couple of MVC people: Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) Also testing out RoyO's Amazoner tool, which appears to have worked correctly. Nice! What is Amazoner? Amazoner was
Posted by ssmith | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:24 PM

Agile For Customers

Tom Hollander wrote about why your customers will love agile (even if they think they hate it) last week, and made several interesting observations about how agile methodology has taken hold in many companies and teams, and why customers should really
Posted by ssmith | 2 Comments
Friday, February 22, 2008 10:30 AM

Use Unit Test Framework to Test Production DB Consistency

For Lake Quincy Media 's AdSignia Ad Server, I wanted to be able to ensure that the database had some internal logic rules checked periodically. What kinds of rules? Well, probably an example would be best. Suffice to say up front, though, that we're
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Friday, February 08, 2008 2:07 PM

CIO Magazine on Agile Development

The latest issue of CIO Magazine has a featured article on Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development . It includes quotes from a bunch of developers, including some names you'll surely recognize if you follow Agile discussions
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:53 AM

Developer Acronyms for 2007

I've learned a few new acronyms this year and thought I'd start this post to let others share their favorites as well. Some of these are new to me, and some are classics that I thought were worth including even though they certainly predate 2007. Where
Posted by ssmith | 8 Comments
Monday, July 02, 2007 11:44 PM

Small Business Developer Center

Soma announces the Small Business Developer Center on MSDN. One point he makes about small business solutions is: Good enough is really good enough which sounds familiar . This new resource is "focused on providing practical, actionable platform guidance
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:51 AM

Beyond Good Enough Is Waste

I just finished reading Jon Galloway's post, The value of "good enough" technology , and it reminded me of something I repeat very often in my talks on improving performance and/or caching (which share some content as you may imagine). I wanted to emphasize
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