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Software engineering is NOT like structural engineering

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:28:08 GMT

There are lots of analogies that are used to describe software engineering. Usually they're wrong.

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:27:03 GMT

Rule of thumb on when to use static methods and when they are evil.

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:02:45 GMT

Links to a nice tool for quickly drawing sequence diagrams.

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:54:34 GMT

Example of how event-based programming can keep your code and tests cleaner.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:25:50 GMT

Third post in a series on how to set up PInvoke calls so they're easy, reusable and testable. With examples or tests with the Rhino Mocks AAA syntax.

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:15:58 GMT

Strange problem with the System.Diagnostics.Process and a solution

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:40:49 GMT

Review of http://www.stackoverflow.com

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:03:28 GMT

Short description on how to add an Add Interface context menu in Visual Studio

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:47:30 GMT

Part two in a series of blogposts describing how to unit test code that uses PInvoke calls.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:20:42 GMT

The first part in a series of tips, tricks and best practices on unit testing code that uses pinvoke.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:05:53 GMT

List of unmanaged datatypes and their corresponding CLR types. Copied and adapted from codeproject.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:03:58 GMT

Tip on how to reserve buffers for unmanaged code to pass strings back into the managed world