Roy's blog is a goldmine for great advide and tools ... this morning he posted Regionerate - Free Code Layout Addin for VS.NET - ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog Regionerate looks like quite a cool little tool, maintaining 'stuff' in the right place is always a fun task, and this has the makings of a good starting point. I'm not sure if it ...

The weekend started well, I have the authorisation I need to hire 4 top notch developers, I send out a short interview test to the agencies, and am told they have some good people. The test is simple ... to write a small application that can tell the difference in days between 2 dates. There are only 5 basic requirements: · It should ...

SubSonic is a great product, and while reading up on it I came across a superb post on data access in general. I think Rob let the whole ASP.NET drag and drop data access get off lightly ... but oh well :)

Scott Hanselman started yet another great debate ... on Ruby and why it is the '***'  ... Today I came across a great artice (via Frans Bouma), called In Defence of the RDBMS - a very well written debunk of a number or database theorist's views.  The two get mentioned together as I loved the comment half way through the ...

  Scott started it ... then Oren replied ... and I'm bored so I thought I would reply :)   To be honest .. I don't think MS is listening to the BIG companies, so much as it is busy trying to attract the LAMP brigades ... Switching to MS development isn't easy from a LAMP background, and a *large* percentage of LAMP ...

Windsor Container is one of my favourite 'tools' - it makes Inversion of Control just that bit easier, and IoC (or Dependency Injection depending on your latest buzzword manual) is just something that all well designed software should attempt to do properly. I just came across some superb tutorials on the subject, linked to indirectly ...

Name the four core principles of an Object Oriented Programming language This opener will immediately gauge the real world experience somebody has. Even if you are self taught, you really should know all four off the top of your head, and even if you pull a blank, as soon as the interviewer names one of them you should be able to ...

It is almost upon us... .NET 3.5 looms larger on the horizon, and so we can all start palying around with it, Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP has been released,  Paul Andrew explain in more detail (as you can find on blogs by Matt Winklers and Somasegars ) Just getting used to 2.0 or 3.0 ?  Things seem ...

"Can you tell me some of the development blogs you regularly read, and why you think they are of value?" If someone names the 'gurus' or 'glitterati' of the development blogshphere, it is damn likely they are also a good developer. IF (like most people I ask), they never read blogs, and can't tell me who the key ...

The February 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0 has been released, according to Tom Hollander this is the last version before the release in about a month. It has a fair few interesting additions which Tom explains in more detail. I've always been torn about the Enterprise Library stuff. Some of it is very useful, some of it is superb, ...