Don't you hate when tools try to promote themselves in your work, especially if you paid for them? Last night I was noavigatin around in Reflector when I stoped by the embedded resource named System.Data.Odbc.OdbcMetaData.xml (in System.Data.dll 2.0). What I saw was both familiar and a little aggravating...

After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.

I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.

The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle.

This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting . This first video is the Cruise presentation.

Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just stitch pieces together) I'll make it available...

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to. Besides the common software development tools, like Visual Studio, SQL Server, Ruby, Office...

I have this small personal organizer application that helps me keeping track of where my hard earned money is going. There's nothing special about this application other that it was designed to be used only by myself and it works exactly the way I think it should. This application has been a trusty...

How to Create Windows Services It's not uncommon for an enterprise application to need some form of background processes to do continuous work. These could be tasks such as Cleanup abandoned shopping carts Delete temporary files left behind by some report or image generation feature Send email notifications...