You’re close to shipping and you receive a shopping list of bugs and changes. Some are tiny and un-eventful, some are show stoppers, some let the bad guys in, and some are simply scope creep trying to sneak through the door. It’s hard to know where to start without reclassifying them because the maj...

For the last 15 odd years we have continually expanded the amount of information available at our finger tips year on year exponentially. Only recently has staying connected to the internet on a Mobile really started to take this to a level where I can truly say that I really am "connected on t...

One of the social functions in GiHub is forking, forking a project, is simply making your own copy of that project to be able to do changes. Then, if you like to share these changes, you can notify the project owner with a "pull request". After that, if your contribution was accepted, the ...

I have just returned from my trip abroad, which included an action packed tour through the .NET user groups of Germany. The tour was sponsored by Telerik, and I was divulging Secrets of a .NET Ninja.

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No matter what your chosen career path society places constraints on what is an acceptable amount of interest you are allowed to show to a subject before you become *weird*. People working in computer industries face this more than most. In my life I have known a lot of really smart people,who are o...

I had a conversation with Stephen Toub, Peter Ritchie and Kevin Hazzard about the different between the TaskCancelledException and the OperationCancelledException. It turns out not to be a big difference, but some understanding might keep you out of a bit of trouble.

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As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks… if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. You never know when you might need to do it again, and the click of a button is much more satisfying tha...

5:01 developers -- those developers who punch out at 5:01 and never think about technology again until 9am, the people who don't read programming blogs or attempt to advance their craft, these developers have neither vision for technology, nor ambition in their field. Where the 501 Manifesto errs.

Carl and Richard have a discussion with a vegetable. Yeah, that's right, we interviewed a leek named Ricky Leeks. Beyond all the endless puns, is a great conversation about memory management in .NET. Ricky also lets us know about a free e-book on .NET Memory Management you can download from the ...

Unmanaged memory is often leaked when you forget to write code to deallocate it; however this can also happen because references are retained to the managed object which is responsible for deallocating it.