Derik Whittaker

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• 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

• Subclassing for Success

  As someone how has been designing and developing WinForms based applications for the past 7+ years, I have learned that subclassing UI controls is a must. You may be thinking, why would I want to subclass a text box? Or a combo box? The answer is simple... Posted Nov 02 2007, 07:36 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Methodology, WinForms, Opinion, Featured

• 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

• Why I believe IN and WRITE unit tests

  In my last post I think I struck a cord with some people in my post 'Unit tests taking too much time'. My intent was NOT to sound like an elitist Agilist or any else of that nature. My intent was simply to put a post out there about the misperception... Posted Oct 01 2007, 07:27 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, Opinion, Featured

• 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... Posted Sep 19 2007, 07:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Development, HowTo, SharePoint, Featured

• Logging Bugs: Do's and Don'ts

  All software that is being developed WILL have bugs, sorry, but this IS a fact. Now I know some people and companies don't like to call them glitches in software bugs. They would rather call them issues or defects. For all I care we can call them... Posted Aug 19 2007, 05:40 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Methodology, Opinion, Featured