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Where's my SQL? Going NoSQL with Peter Ritchie

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:35:59 GMT

Keith and Woody discus NoSql with Peter Ritchie

Testing Strategies for Async Functions in C#

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:12:31 GMT

Peter discussions one possible testing strategy for C#'s new async functions with regard to WinForms.

Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:58:55 GMT

Peter does a deep-dive on the pitfals of closures in C# and details what the compiler is actually doing so that programmers can more easily recognize when they in these pitfal scenarios.

Dew Drop June 16

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:33:01 GMT

Software Development Links for June 16

Visual Studio 2010: enhance your Jedi Skillz

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:25:02 GMT

Peter continues is them on becoming a Visual Studio Jedi, this time with new features in Visual Studio 2010.

Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object-Orientation

Mon, 24 May 2010 16:20:44 GMT

Peter discusses how the dynamic keyword isn't just for interop with COM or dynamic languages and can actually be used to make C# code more object-oriented.

Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 book available

Mon, 17 May 2010 15:04:42 GMT

Peter announces the book Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010.

Nourishing Technology and product communities

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:24:06 GMT

Peter discusses his thoughts on what it takes to nourish a product community to maximize benefit to the community and the product.

The differene between an Anti-Pattern and a Code smell

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:55:45 GMT

Peter discusses the difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell.

A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Continue our look at the AutoMapper framework. AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to take a deeper look at how you can flatten your model during transformation or perform projection during transformation.

Why software fundamentals are important to Microsoft's bottom-line

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:50:48 GMT

Peter discusses why software fundamentals should be viewed as something positive to Microsoft's bottom line.

Global error handling in WCF

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:36:27 GMT

Dave shows us how to easily add global error handling to WCF external methods without having to expand the responsiblity of each and every exernal method.

Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:15:02 GMT

Other than for debug code, Peter details why Thread.Sleep isn't for production code.

DevTeach 2009

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:35:54 GMT

DevTeach 2009, a Jam-packed conference!

Hosting your OSS project on github

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:31:09 GMT

Aaron walks through hosting an oss project on github and how to use git as the SCC system.

Developing with Source Code Control Best Practices Part 2

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:46:02 GMT

Peter continues his series on Source Code Control best practices.

responding to coding horror

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:01:06 GMT

Rob responds to opinions on coding horror

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

A pandemic of domain anaemia

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:19:00 GMT

Peter discusses anaemic domain model anti-pattern and anaemic domain model application patterns recently published by Microsoft Patterns and Practices.

House of Cards Design Anti-Pattern

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:54:00 GMT

Peter details what he calls the "House of Cards" design anti-pattern.

DDDD: Master-Detail Question

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:07:59 GMT

Greg Young explains, how the "read" part of Command-Query-Separation is handled in his system. This has not been covered by him on his blog before, nor by anyone else.

Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - Part 2

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:46:05 GMT

This is the second in a multi-part series were we will guide you through various features of ReSharper.

Pontificating Virtual Parameterized Constructors in C#

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:05:22 GMT

Peter pontificates on whether adding virtual parameterized constructors to a future version of C# is a good idea or not.

.NET 4.0, Evolving .NET Development

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:51:31 GMT

Peter provides a detailed overview of some of the .NET 4.0 features as they pertain to C# development.