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Steve McConell on Software's Classic Mistakes - 2008
14 May 08 09:15 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Steve McConnell, author of the excellent Code Complete , has published an updated version of the Software Classic Mistakes he identified in his book Rapid Development published in 1996. The idea was to see what the industry is like 12 years later. Read more about it here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Learning, C#, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, ADONet, Misc, Mono, Design, TeamSystem, F#

Izindaba #20
30 November 07 05:48 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS 7) - Scott Guthrie announces the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development for the months ahead. Silverlight 2.0 Beta with Go-live license Q1 2008! So glad they decided to rename to 2.0 and not stick with 1.1. Advanced C# - Free chapter from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book published by O'Reilly...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Linq, C#, VisualStudio, SOA, Coding, SQL

Izindaba #19
23 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber DVD's? Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 - The top 10 new features according to the Visual Basic Team. Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Ajax, Silverlight, Dsl, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, VB.NET, SQL

Izindaba #6
24 August 07 07:43 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: NUnit 2.4.3 Released - Another update that includes mostly bug fixes. SketchPath - A XPath development and XML analysis tool. PowerShell Toolbox - Collection of PowerShell links. LLBLGen Pro v2.5 Released - Frans Bouma reports on the new features in the latest release of this .NET ORM. Mocking Linq: Preview - News from Eli Lopian on the forthcoming support for mocking LINQ queries from the TypeMock...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Learning, Linq, Ajax, Orm, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, Powershell, XML

Izindaba #3
03 August 07 07:26 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements - Scott Guthrie on some improvements made to editing code within VS 2008. Nice to see they are incorporating some of the functionality and ideas from existing excellent add-ins like ReSharper . ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 - Scott Guthrie on what version of ASP.NET AJAX will be supported in the final VS 2008 and on a minor issue and workaround with the current...

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Izindaba #2
27 July 07 07:31 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 Released - Scott Guthrie has all the details that includes the links to his previous posts that cover all the great new features. Beta2 includes a Go-live license. Windsor IoC Container - Jeffrey Jarrell has an introductory post on using the Windsor container from Castle Project for inversion of control . More in-depth tutorials on using Windsor are available here . Script Class...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Ajax, VisualStudio, IoC, DLR, Hardware, WinForms

Izindaba #1
20 July 07 12:34 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I try to publish a short, weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content internally to the .NET community within my company . I've decided to publish this on my blog as well. I'll call these posts Izindaba ( Zulu for news) to give it a local SA flavour Here is the first public issue: VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging - Scott Guthrie on the excellent VS 2008 Javascript debugging features. C# 3.0 language features - Jeremy Miller links to some articles that shows...

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Excellent free .NET Training Workshops
03 May 07 01:35 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

I'm not sure how many people are aware of the excellent, free .NET training workshops that Richard Grimes has hosted on his site: .NET Fusion Workshop .NET Security Workshop .NET Instrumentation Workshop Excellent stuff Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Serious Software Developer reading list
20 December 06 10:27 PM | cjlotz | 5 comment(s)

As software developers we constantly need to keep up with the latest technology to keep ourselves marketable. Unfortunately we are sometimes so busy keeping up with the new stuff coming out of Redmond that I fear we are not spending enough time learning the craft of software development. Here is a list of non-technology books that I think every serious developer should at some stage read to become better at writing quality software. As software development is a team discipline the list includes some...

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Threading in C# E-book
22 August 06 03:17 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

I pick this up from Roy Osherove's weblog . There is a good book called Threading in C# available for download at http://www.albahari.com/threading/ . With quad-core around the corner the ability to write threading code will become more and more important. Happy reading! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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