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Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software?

justin_etheredge — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:04:57 +0000

A good friend of mine, Kevin Israel, said on twitter today: "how freakin long are *we* gonna keep building tightly coupled software that needs to constantly evolve!?"References Reference: Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software? alashcraft

The Blurring Lines of Languages

justin_etheredge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:33 +0000

On Twitter the other day I had a short conversation (well, it wasn’t really a conversation since it was only about 4 tweets) with Jeff Cohen who is the author of Rails for .NET Developers. Which is, by the way, an excellent book and highly recommended. The conversation that we had was about the dynamic keyword for C# and its implications for C# developers.References Reference: ...

An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two

kensipe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#. James Sugrue

Google I/O 2009 - AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content

alashcraft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:15:44 +0000

Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank's "Ranking Map" that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his or her Map. Code examples will be shown utilizing the Google Maps API, the Google Maps Marker Manager, the...

Are You in a Claustrophobic Team?

mpool — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:51:45 +0000

Something that never ceases to humor me is how managers still believe that scaling people on a project will increase the productivity by an equal proportion. We all know the old saying, “You can’t make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant”, but the question is why do we still practice this bad habit? Is it because we do not recognize the the law of diminishing returns when it...

Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers

simonech — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:20:16 +0000

Almost one month ago I created a survey in order to try and understand how .NET developers are using Ajax. And also to compare it with the results I collected at the end of 2007.References Reference: Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers alashcraft ...

Does jQuery Make Us Lazy?

DaveMBush — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:04:55 +0000

Yesterday I read a post that proposed that using jQuery as the answer to every JavaScript problem makes us lazy programmers.This is not what I was expecting to hear since the post was titled, “Is jQuery always the answer?” To that, I could easily agree, no it is not.References Reference: Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? ...

Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session

peekb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:55:31 +0000

The recordings for the session I gave on XNA Game Studio 3.0 and the XNA Framework to the Facebook .NET Programmers Group have now been posted. In this session, I give an overview of XNA Game Studio 3.0 and the XNA Framework while building a simple Space Invaders clone named Alien Attack. This game is gone into even Remote Video...

An Introduction to Functional Languages

kensipe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:54:52 +0000

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. This article will go through the details of functional programming; concepts, terms, approaches, and languages. The target audiences for this article are developers that already understand programming but are totally new to functional...

From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding

Psychlist1972 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:03:06 +0000

One reason I’ve been so quiet over the past couple months, is I have been scrambling to update Chad Campbell and John Stockton’s excellent Manning Silverlight 2 in Action book to Silverlight 3, under the title Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition (the Amazon info is out of date), to be released this fall. References Reference: From Silverlight in...

Getting Started with Parallel Programming

HFadeel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:25:34 +0000

Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full benefits of this new hardware, we need to parallelize our code. The goal of this article is to introduce you to parallelism, its different types and to help you understand when to parallelize your code - and when not to. We will also examine...

.NET Fireside Chats - Nick Berardi on 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming'

alashcraft — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:20:25 +0000

Microsoft recently released the ASP.NET MVC Framework version 1.0. As a result, there are several recent titles which focus on the MVC Framework. One of those titles from Wiley/Wrox is 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution' written by Nick Berardi, Al Katawazi and Marco Bellinaso. You can download a sample chapter of the book here. Article Resources: ...

Seams: Some Thoughts

markhneedham — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:38 +0000

I pick up Michael Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code book from time to time and one of my favourite parts of the book is the chapter where he talks about 'Seams'. To quote the book: A seam is a place where you can alter behaviour in your program without editing in that placeReferences Reference: Seams: Some thoughts ...

Versioning Your Silverlight Application

cschuman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:47:54 +0000

When writing an enterprise level application it’s critical to have a version number. Whether it’s located on the help screen or in debug mode, this will save you so much heartache during QA. The larger the project, the more dependent your team is on the version. Now that I’m all done ranting to the converted, let’s talk about Silverlight. From my past experience there are two ways...

F#: Using C# Extension Methods

markhneedham — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:41:47 +0000

An interesting thing I noticed about referencing C# libraries from F# is that you can't access C# extension methods in the same way that you would be able to if you were using the library from C# code. I came across this problem when playing around with the Rhino Mocks framework in some F# code. I wrote a simple test to see whether I could get an expectation to work correctly, without paying any...