by: Glenn Goodrich This post is the winner of The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway . The story you are about to read is true. The names and identities of the innocent have been changed to protect them and my job. No animals were harmed in the writing of this story. Roughly three to five years ago I was an...

We've just finished tallying up our votes for the Great Devlicio.us Giveaway and we are pleased to announce that the winner is Glenn Goodrich . We had enough entries to make the contest worthwhile and we decided to give prizes for every story. Everyone got one of the books in the original list and...

Because there's more than one kind of hero Update: The contest is now closed. We cannot accept any more entries. Wait for the winner announcement is a few days. Thanks for all the great submissions. Here's your chance to win a well-deserved prize for being a good developer — and not just any...

...at least for the next three days Tomorrow I'm hopping on a plane to Seattle/Redmond, WA to take part in the second ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference . I had the chance to be at the first one last October in Austin, TX and what a great experience that was. My main motivation to attend the event in...

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 these failure check we have had to resort to a...

One of the things I often discuss with other developers is how little (on average) we automate our work-related tasks. Think about this. We make our living automating our users' activities: We write applications to replace manual processes. Our programs send notifications so that they users don't...

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, the better future proof your app. How many times...

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 change/up the timeout on this). I have been using...

Reginald Braithwaite says he'd love to hear stories about how programmers learned concepts from one language that made them better in another . This pretty neatly coincides with a post I've been meaning to make for months, so I might as well just get on with it and write something (because as...

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 (in my opinion) about how writing unit tests...