Interview with SD Times on C#/VS.NET 2005 … fear of the sound byte!
A few weeks back,Bob Flanders (a fellow consultant)and I gave an interview to SD Times reporter, Jennifer deJong on our experiences with C# and the features we were anxious for in the Whidbey release.
Here is the articlebased on the interview. The actual interview was about 30 minutes long so it is really scary to see [...]
Jeff Schoolcraft joins Thycotic as Senior Technology Consultant
Jeff Schoolcraft has recently joined Thycotic Software Ltdas a Senior Technology Consultant specializing in .NET and TDD practices. I am very pleased to welcome Jeff to the company. Jeff is also the president of the WinProTeam Vienna User Group which helps to further expandour activities in the community.
Jeff brings his expertise in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, [...]
"Copy and Paste Programming" – the TDD way.
Setting the scene…You are building your second large TDD project for a new client. Some of the requirements are almost identical to the last TDD project. Management is aware of this and expects some form of code reuse to occur that will save budget and time. The functionality required is separated well in the code [...]
Darrell Norton, I presume.
The local DC and surrounding area.NET community leaders came together last night courtesy of Microsoft’s local Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman and our new Developer Evangelist, Andrew Duthie.
Amongst all the wonderful people I met for the first time at the event was Darrell Norton whose TDD interest was especially exciting. Unfortunately with all the activity [...]
Thycotic.Data (DAL) gets a wiki!
Thycotic.Data (our free, open source, database independent DAL) has finally reached the point of requiring some documentation! (The project was spawned as a result ofa presentation on late binding ADO.NET Providers back in early 2003). We use it at Thycotic Software on all our projects but others in thecommunity appear to be using it too. [...]
Customizing WebControls at the DC .NET UG Today
I will be presenting at the Inner DC .NET User Group today (11/16) on Customizing WebControls. The session will be very “hands on” with lots of code and plenty of time for Q & A. The focus will be on all the things people seem to be missing in *current* (pre 2.0)ASP.NET development.
Do all [...]
Q & A from Build and Deploy with NAnt in Rockville
I presented on “Build and Deploy with NAnt” (slides/code available)at the WinProTeamRockville .NET User Group on 11/4.
The following are some of the questions (and my answers) from the event:
Can NAnt be used to compile projects in any .NET language? (particularly C++ projects)
The task in NAnt appears to definitely support both C# and VB.NET project. [...]
CruiseControl.NET – second impressions …
On our current project we have been running our NAnt build script using a Windows Scheduled Task. While this never seemed particularly sophisticated, it did the job especially given that our build (plus all test suites) takes around 2 hours to run! Today, I installed CruiseControl.NET for a dabble – my last experience was many [...]
