Don’t miss the Nova Code Camp South this weekend!
The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA. The speaker schedule has been posted here.
I am presenting two sessions:
9:00-10:15: Refactoring in C#
1:00-2:15: Web Application Testing in Watin
Register now!
We are hiring! Do you want to write beautiful code in a Test Driven, Refactored, Agile .NET software company in the [...]
Can you find the bug in this code? (THE FIX)
Thanks to everyone for contributing! It was really neat to read everyone’s ideas and see the discussion and review (talking about code is always fun!). Here is a summary of responses and the “fixed” code.
If you are interested in the original problem, go here.
@drakiula: The idea with the Response.Redirect is that it will stop [...]
For once, not blogging wasn’t my fault
For the last couple of days, the weblogs.asp.net website has been unable to accept posts from Windows Live Writer. For the first time in the history of this blog, I can blame someone else for not posting. In fact, I even started queueing up draft blog posts!
Kudos to the weblogs.asp.net team for fixing [...]
Can you find the bug in this code?
This is a real bug that I came across yesterday in some code I had written about a week before. I was a little surprised at the mechanics but it makes sense once you understand what is happening …
1: private void Foo()
2: {
3: [...]
Learning from your Burn Down chart
The chart to the left represents the Burn Down chart for the Secret Server 4.1 release which shipped on March 14th 2008. We have always shipped Secret Server on the published date (or in the early hours of morning the next day!) but this release pushed things a little too close for our liking. [...]
Please question the need for whitespace
I have blogged about this before but I think it is a common problem that is worth restating since it affect developers across our industry. I noticed the following method recently and again the curious separation of sections by whitespace popped into my head:
1: private void CalcHeaderOffsets()
2: [...]
Subversion Logins Utility – selectively remove authentication data
Subversion keeps your saved authentication data in a folder on your local workstation. On my Windows Vista laptop, this folder is C:\Users\jcogley\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\auth\svn.simple. In this folder, you will find some cryptically named files – one for each Subversion repository authentication information that you have saved. Using TortoiseSVN you have the option to “Clear Authentication Data” which [...]
Secret Server 4.1 goes live!
The team thinks it should be 5.0 since the new features were pretty huge! The full release notes are here. The new version includes role based security which allows you to slice and dice the access to various features across your organization. We also have a new feature that allows you to automatically [...]
NoVa CodeCamp South v1 speaking schedule has been announced!
The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA. The speaker schedule has been posted here.
I will be presenting on two topics:
Refactoring in C# – bad code to better code
Web Application Testing in Watin
There are lots of great sessions from WPF, TDD, SSIS, jQuery, SQL Server 2008 and [...]
Refactoring in C# at RockNUG this week
I will be giving a presentation on Refactoring in C# at RockNUG on Wednesday March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm. Directions here.
What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? Come along to learn how to clean code like the Thycotic team. What do we [...]
