The Butler Did It
Sunday, March 01 2009
technical-debt
While reading a recent post by Jeff Attwood, entitled “Paying down your Technical Debt”, I came to the realisation that the causes of the death of Compudigm weren’t the ones I thought.
Easier Enums
Wednesday, March 04 2009
smart-code
Here’s a slightly easier way to work with flag enumerations.
The word "Estimate"
Thursday, March 12 2009
professional
It’s interesting how the word estimate gets thrown around.
Real World Information Modelling: Naming
Sunday, March 15 2009
random
Despite the growing maturity of our industry, there are some mistakes that seem to be repeated by each new generation of developers.
Scary Code
Wednesday, March 18 2009
random
I just wrote this code:
Unscary Code
Thursday, March 19 2009
random
I found a better approach, one that isn’t as scary …
Stages of Competence
Sunday, March 22 2009
professional
Well over 10 years ago I learned of the so called Four stages of competence.
When to use Var
Thursday, March 26 2009
csharp
I had an interesting conversation with a friend earlier this week, over when to use the var keyword in C# 3.0.
Class Diagrams as Documentation
Saturday, March 28 2009
tips
The Class Diagram tooling built into Visual Studio is worth its weight in gold as documentation.
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