Derik Whittaker

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• Foundations of Programming EBook - Great Read & ITS FREE

  If you have not hear, Karl Seguin has authored a great, short eBook which he is giving away free to the world.  This book is based of his blog series of the same title. Do yourself a favor and go download this book, it is pretty short and is a great... Posted Jul 10 2008, 08:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .Net, Shout-Out, Featured, Announcement

• Simple extension methods to help with Asserting values

  In the past I have written about the Fail Fast principle.  This is a principle I try to live my development life by.  I would rather explicitly check for possible failure points then have a runtime error crop up.  In the past when writing... Posted Apr 10 2008, 07:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, Featured

• Linq and Delayed execution

  If you have not taken a look at Linq (either Linq to objects or Linq to sql) you need to do so.  I would say it is the coolest new feature that was released with .Net 3.5.  But there is one thing that you MUST keep in mind when using Linq. ... Posted Apr 07 2008, 01:11 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Featured, Linq

• Using Anonymous Delegates to handle Async Web Service Calls

  I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot... Posted Oct 15 2007, 08:27 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, HowTo, Featured