The Benefits of Pair Programming
The Agile practice of Pair Programming is one of the more controversial development techniques within the software development community. The controversy lies in the question of how two programmers working together on the same code can be more productive than the same two programmers writing code individually.
Managed code isnt always the best solution
Managed code is cool. In fact most of the code I write at work is managed code in C#. In one case our product team needed to write some unmanaged code as a Log On credential provider. Throughout Microsoft’s documentation on this, it was strictly mentioned that Managed Code is a bad idea. Well, why? It’s not just for performance.
Debugger Friend or Foe
The debugger is something that most developers get familiarized with pretty quick. I am not really even going to bother explaining it as it’s such a ubiquitous tool. We all use it for one main reason though: something doesn’t work the way we expect.
Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET
Here’s a tip that might bite some C# developers getting their feet wet with VB.NET. In fact, I got bit by this one recently, and it didn’t help that it was knee deep in COM. Let’s examine this harmless looking C# statement:
int? someSpoon;
string helloValue = someSpoon.HasValue
? “The spoon is ” + someSpoon.Value
: “There is no spoon”;
