Announcement – Intro to TDD Presentation
Our CEO, Jonathan Cogley, will be presenting an introduction to Test Driven Development on March 25th for the DC ALT.NET user group. The session will focus on walking through and solving a “real world” problem by identifying and isolating the dependencies in the logic.
This is a great chance for aspiring and veteran TDD developers to [...]
Fun with Anonymous Types and LINQ
Anonymous types aren’t really meant for replacing that standard class or initialization, its much more advantageous to use it with the set based operations of LINQ. The example above may be somewhat contrived, but it’s handy that due to the inferred creation of the anonymously typed objects there was no need to create any classes.
My two and a half cents – pitfalls with rounding
Bryant and I came a across an interesting issue when comparing two values that appeared identical, but which the code insisted were different. Our research lead us into the internals of ASP.Net rounding to solve an infrequent but legitimate concern.
“We’re located between the bullet proof vests and the air conditioners”
March 13th 2009 | Jonathan Cogley & Dan Parker
Thycotic showcased its password management software at FOSE 2009 this week, the largest IT event for US Government. This is our second year attending the event and we’ve enjoyed demonstrating Secret Server to the various State and Federal government departments.
We’ve grown tremendously in the last year and [...]
A Developer’s Uphill Journey From Custom Development to Software Vendor – Part 3
You have to support everyone!” noted David Astle, a Secret Server developer, upon realizing the endless combinations of software and settings that our audience use. Limiting the supported configuration by setting certain system requirements may seem like a smart way to reduce quality assurance time, but it doesn’t really work.
A Developer’s Uphill Journey From Custom Development to Software Vendor – Part 2
Our approach was to focus on the pain that our product solves.By delivering the core pain-relieving features, we would have a product that was genuinely useful and could then be refined and tuned based on customer feedback. This strategy put our product in our customers’ hands quickly, solved a few of their main problems, and began generating a stream of feedback to then drive requirements for the next phase
