SPAM, Damn SPAM, and SPAM Statistics.
We have all heard how SPAM is costing us money - wasted time, wasted bandwidth, anti-SPAM software, lost business emails, etc.
Recently I have discovered (unfortunately) anew way. My ISP just notified me that I am violating their acceptable use for incoming SMTP connections - they limit to 5000 per day - I am receiving up [...]
Test Driven Development is growing in popularity.
The audience tonight at the Cleveland .NET SIG responded that about half were aware of TDD and around 8-9 attendees were already practicing it!
I have noticed a definite pattern of increased popularity of TDD at each new speaking engagement. Is this just a side effect of the rising popularity of Agile techniques in general? Are [...]
TDD with ASP.NET in Cleveland next Tuesday
I will be speaking at the Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group (hosted by Bennett Adelson) on Tuesday, 9/14/2004. The presentation will move quickly through the theory and then focus on a hands-on session buildinga simple ASP.NET application with a database backend. This will introduce the concepts of Test Driven Development while tackling the typical challenges [...]
Rosebud. Or is it RoseBud? (Hashtable)
Last night at the WinProTeam .NET UG Rockville Meeting, Carney Clegg spoke on “Using Hashtables Effectively”.
Of course, my burning question on Hashtables was …
Why is it Hashtable and not HashTable as the .NET Design Guidelines would indicate?
The question went unanswered last night with only my guess that it was kept the same to keep transitioning [...]