Archive for 2009

Prior year: 2008
Next year: 2010

January

4 Single Reponsibility Principle
6 Margin Guides in Visual Studio
10 On NNPPs
17 Going to Oslo
19 The importance of Attitude
24 New Year, New Look
26 Readonly vs. Disabled
28 Swiss SRP

February

7 Drupal APIs
7 Upgrades that (mostly) Work
9 Using Lambdas as Event Handlers
10 Be A Better Developer
11 Struct Weirdness
12 Listening time
18 Commenting Fixed
18 Is that an Ad?
18 Unit testing with LINQ
23 Strange Win.Forms behaviour
24 StyleCop for ReSharper
27 Validation and Domain Driven Design

March

1 The Butler Did It
4 Easier Enums
12 The word "Estimate"
15 Real World Information Modelling: Naming
18 Scary Code
19 Unscary Code
22 Stages of Competence
26 When to use Var
28 Class Diagrams as Documentation

April

4 Of Colour and Presentation
5 We are not our Users
7 Working smarter with XElement
7 Defining Polymorphism
17 How not to set up Tests
27 WinForms DataBinding Goodness

May

9 False positive from Gendarme?
17 An Event Snippet
24 Is CruiseControl.NET worth the effort?
25 Getting the small things right
30 Windows 7 Taskbar ... Like!
30 Want to get more done, faster?

June

6 First Impressions of Google Wave
14 Quote of the Day
18 Scoped Values
20 Synergy

July

6 The Pragmatic Programmers have a Magazine
7 Older Programmers
12 Performance of Dynamic
12 PhpMyAdmin and the White Screen of Death
15 Exception Inspection
16 Two dangerous little words
16 How to Find Stuff
18 Monitoring by Ear
19 A Drupal Views "Date Trap"

August

11 Data Migration issues
12 Locality Counts
19 MappingLists with NHibernate
23 Using new Language and Library Features
26 An Architects Life
26 Are we speaking the same Language?
31 Windows 7 User Experience Guidelines

September

1 Testing and Static Methods
1 Linq vs Loop performance
10 Coming up to speed
15 Co- and Contra-Variance in .NET 3.5
19 TechEd New Zealand 2009
23 The Art of Unit Testing

October

5 Still working too hard
11 Nobody wants my Code
12 The "Good Samaritan" Principle
15 Group Inspector

November

6 Windows 7 Window Management
13 Software Craftsmanship
13 Google's new Language
15 Group Inspector Update
23 Sequence diagrams in Visual Studio 2010

December

14 A Regular Expression Bug
17 On Priorities