Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development(littletutorials.com)

submitted by contour(490) 3 years, 7 months ago

Warning: This is a rant against TDD extremism! Sensitive TDD people better step out of this dark sleazy communist place right now! Why do I pick on TDD? Because it makes no sense. The development and design shall be driven by thought not by test. Yes some people are able to “think” better about their problems while using TDD. Kudos to them! But not all people are alike. read more...

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Bad advice on exceptions from Joel(littletutorials.com)

submitted by contour(490) 3 years, 9 months ago

Starting from some comments on my exception handling series of articles I run into a couple of blogs pointing to this post on joelonsoftware.com. I think this is the worst advice on exception handling I have ever read, sorry Joel. I know this is an old post, I know Joel is entitled to his own opinion and I know he has the right to write his code as he sees fit. But as an opinion leader he influences others. read more...

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The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, blogs, interviews(littletutorials.com)

submitted by danielstoner(335) 3 years, 9 months ago

Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve. Here is a collection of resources about these people: personal pages, blogs, biographies and interviews. read more...

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Code review - The meaningless ritual(littletutorials.com)

submitted by contour(490) 3 years, 9 months ago

Most of the time code reviews are a meaningless ritual. Everybody pays lip service to the importance of code reviews and a lot of people, especially in the management, are convinced that code reviews very effectively reduce the number of shipped bugs. The problem is… most developers hate code reviews and avoid them like the plague. If they can’t avoid them, then they show up and act their part like in a play at the theater of the absurd. read more...

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Software development dogmata - good practices gone bad(littletutorials.com)

submitted by klasbas(250) 3 years, 9 months ago

Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the “true way”. The trouble starts when the “true way” is forced down the throats of people who need a “new way”. Usually popular practices follow a similar path between the moment somebody discovers/creates them and until they get massively popular. read more...

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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1(microsoft.com)

submitted by johnrummell(1321) 3 years, 9 months ago

It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en read more...

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How bad comments are born in your code(littletutorials.com)

submitted by contour(490) 3 years, 9 months ago

Many programmers mention their support for “good” comments in the code. A significant percentage of all developers think the quality of the comments is one of the traits that separate good experienced programmers from the rest. But the cruel reality is lots of code out there is not commented at all or, even worse, it is commented but the comments are so bad they make understanding the code harder. read more...

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Add grunge effect to text using simple CSS(jankoatwarpspeed.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 3 years, 9 months ago

Excellent, as usual, demonstration on how to do something pretty cool-looking using css by janko. Excellent style and idea inside... read more...

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No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse!(littletutorials.com)

submitted by contour(490) 3 years, 9 months ago

I am not sure how so many people go through so many years of school, which is supposed to make us better at thinking, and they fail to differentiate the “why” and the “how”. During interviews, when I ask their opinion about the purpose of inheritance in OOP, invariably I get this precooked answer (not so nicely expressed): inheritance is the way to achieve code reuse. No it is not! read more...

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Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz(jondavis.net)

submitted by stimpy77(1271) 3 years, 9 months ago

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants. read more...

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Thinking in REST - i have a framework...(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 9 months ago

I've been reading blogs around the .NET community lately and there seems to be some serious confusion about what exactly REST is. Is it a SOAP replacement? Is it a definition of how to prepare data for consumption by AJAX clients? And what does it have to do with all this new MVC stuff we've been hearing about? What is it exactly? read more...

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Visual Studio Theme Generator(frickinsweet.com)

submitted by dengar007(3084) 3 years, 9 months ago

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

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The Agile 800 Pounds Gorilla(littletutorials.com)

submitted by danielstoner(335) 3 years, 9 months ago

I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are not to be discussed, just executed. The Enterprise goes Agile! With the elegance of the huge battleship being pulled across a desert between oceans by slaves, camels and elephants, the Enterprise goes Agile. read more...

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36 steps to success as technical lead(littletutorials.com)

submitted by danielstoner(335) 3 years, 9 months ago

The “tech lead” role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies “leadership“, most of the times it doesn’t come with implied authority like a manager role for example. It often happens that this role is in a no-man’s-land where it brings a lot of responsibility but not enough formal authority. In order to successfully help a project from this position one has to navigate through narrow and convoluted straits. read more...

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Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 6(codethinked.com)

submitted by justin_etheredge(8539) 3 years, 9 months ago

In part 6 we look at Hashes (or Associative Arrays) and how they are used in the Ruby language. We also look at how you can use them in place of explicit method parameters. read more...

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13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness(littletutorials.com)

submitted by klasbas(250) 3 years, 9 months ago

UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it… in my mind. And when a software design technology loses the programmers it fades away no matter what the academia thinks. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don’t like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work. read more...

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