September 2007 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

"Unit tests take too much time".... WTF

I was chatting with a buddy of mine yesterday who recently has started a new job. His new company has built a new team to start a 'green field' project and they are currently in the 'debate' stage of planning. The team is currently trying...

Published 09-27-2007 7:38 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: TDD, Opinion, Best Practice

Dell Going Carbon Neutral

Today Dell announced its plans to go Carbon Neutral (wiki info here ). Personally i think this is pretty cool.... However, I am a little skeptical if they (or anyone else) will really follow through. You can read the article here . Till next time,

Published 09-26-2007 3:40 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out, Opinion

RE: Bug Driven Development

Today I came across a nice post on 'Bug Driven Development' . This is something that most developers have experienced at one point in their career. I know I have. Kudos to Phil for coming up with this great name (if did not coin this term, then...

Published 09-25-2007 7:11 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out

MOSS Development: Getting your environment up and running.

I thought I would post a quick 'Getting-Started' guide for MOSS development. This post comes from my experience learning how to develop for MOSS. This post is a quick listing of what is needed to get your environment up and running. As you may...

Published 09-22-2007 4:29 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, asp.net, HowTo, SharePoint

3 is definitely better than 2, Monitors that is

I have been using 2 monitors in some shape or form for the past 3+ years. In the early days it was a CRT attached to my laptop, then I moved to an LCD attached to the laptop. Finally, when I worked on desktops I used 2 LCD's. With this said, I am...

Published 09-21-2007 7:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion

Updating List Information in SharePoint via Web Services

In my continued learning on SharePoint and how to manipulate the data stored in SharePoint I thought I would post on how to perform updates on existing data inside a document library. When performing an update on data inside of SharePoint there are a...

Published 09-19-2007 7:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, HowTo, SharePoint, Featured

10 kinds of people

There are 10 kinds of poeple: Those who understand Binary And those who don't. We have this up on our wall at work, and I thought I would share. Till next time,

Published 09-17-2007 6:56 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor

Re: Don’t use your email account for testing

Orin (Ayende @ Rahien) has a post about not using your email account for testing (found here ). I would go a step further and say don’t use your development teams group address. Recently I was developing a heath check windows service that was designed...

Published 09-12-2007 8:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Humor, Best Practice

Microsoft announces MOSS 2008 conference

Just in case anyone is interested, M.S. announced the MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) 2008 conference. You can find more (not much more though) information here . The event will feature keynote addresses by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation;...

Published 09-12-2007 7:04 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: SharePoint

RE: The importance of tools to a software craftsman

This is in response to a post by my good buddy joeyDotNet (found here ). Joey has an obvious but insightful post about how a software craftsman should bring their own tools with them to make them more productive. In his post he specially talks about carrying...

Published 09-11-2007 7:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development Tools, Shout-Out, Opinion

Brain Dumpage from Scott Bellware over at CodeBetter.com

I am not sure what has gotten into Scott, but it appears as if he is doing a brain dump over at CodeBetter.com. I just noticed that over the weekend he pump out a ton of insightful postings. You can find all of Scotts postings at his CodeBetter site here...

Published 09-10-2007 9:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out

New iPode touch

Today Apple announced a new version of their iPod, the 'touch'. It appears to be the iPhone minus the phone part. It looks pretty cool. You can get some information about the touch from Apple's site here . I just happen to be in the market...

Published 09-06-2007 1:30 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out, Opinion

Free ASP.Net hosting until January 2010 from Verio

This is pretty cool. Verio is giving away free web hosting for the next 2+ years. This is an 'educational' only site (not 100% sure what this means), but it is free. For more information check out this site . I created my account today, it was...

Published 09-04-2007 5:41 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, Shout-Out

Taking the MCTS Test 70-536 -- That Sucked....

So today I finally took the first test on the path to getting my MCTS Cert. This was the 70-536 test which is the first test in their new series for .net developers. Yea, I passed the first one, that SUCKED. I, along with the others on my team have been...

Published 09-02-2007 9:28 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, Opinion, Certification

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