http://www.thycotic.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:49:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en March 5th | Jonathan Cogley I have been using GTD (Getting Things Done) for about 5 years now and it works. It is a great system to manage all aspects of your work and personal life. The turning point for me was when I had too many tasks and correspondence to ... http://www.thycotic.com/outlook-folder-macros-for-getting-things-done March 4th | 2009 Thinking in Regex - A C# Regex Tutorial with Examples Regular Expressions (regex) can be a difficult language to learn.The terse syntax is one factor-regex are notoriously difficult to read-but another factor is the problem space. Pattern-matching problems require a different mindset than software development in general. However, ... http://www.thycotic.com/thinking-in-regex-a-csharp-regex-tutorial-with-examples February 25th | 2010 Quirks in .NET Part -2  Marshalling Booleans In Quirks in .NET – Part 1, we talked about the quirky call vs. callvirt instructions. This week Platform Invoke is under my microscope. It isn’t necessarily a quirk, but it can be a hair-pulling experience when you get it wrong. More ... http://www.thycotic.com/quirks-in-net-part-2 February 18th | 2010 Quirks in .NET Part -1 Call vs Callvirt There are a lot of cool yet strange things in the .NET Framework. A lot of them make you go, “Huh. I didn’t know that.” Let’s take a look at a few of them. call vs. callvirt This one is ... http://www.thycotic.com/quirks-in-dot-net-part-1 February 11th | 2009 FsUnit – Test F# with F# I recently spent some time putting together an F# lab with a series of unit tests designed to help teach the language. I started out with a set of Nunit tests in C#, but kept running head-first into type problems with the ... http://www.thycotic.com/fsunit-test-fsharp-with-fsharp February 4th | 2009 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 ... http://www.thycotic.com/the-benefits-of-pair-programming January 15th | 2009 Managed code isn't 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 ... http://www.thycotic.com/managed-code-isnt-always-the-best-solution January 7th | 2009 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. I ... http://www.thycotic.com/debugger-friend-foe December 29th | 2009 Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VB.NET 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 ... http://www.thycotic.com/dealing-with-nullable-types-and-iif-in-vbnet December 21st | 2009 Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in .NET 4.0 In An Overview of C# 4.0 I discussed some of new features in C# 4.0. One thing that I didn’t cover was the dynamic keyword. Put simply, something marked as dynamic does not have any compile-time enforced semantics. Instead, all ... http://www.thycotic.com/cool-things-to-do-with-dynamics-in-dotnet-4 December 10th | 2009 Are Extension Methods a Code Smell? The extension method is a handy feature that came in C# 3.0/VB.NET 9.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. Quite simply, it allows the appearance of extending a class and giving it additional functionality without actually having to modify that class. Here’s an example: class ... http://www.thycotic.com/are-extension-methods-code-smell December 1rst | 2009 An Overview of C# 4.0 In Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too I focused on the new features in VB.NET 10. Now let’s take a look at C# 4.0. C# already has a strong, rich feature set which will, no doubt, be developed even further. I will discuss ... http://www.thycotic.com/an-overview-of-c-4-0 November 24th | 2009 Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too At Thycotic we typically work with C#. In fact, 90% of the code that we write is written in C#. However, it’s no secret that I am a VB.NET Fanatic. Generally, C# developers don’t look kindly on VB.NET developers because they consider ... http://www.thycotic.com/some-love-for-vb-net-10-too October 16th 2009 | David Cooksey The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued The Dangers of Single Responsibility, Cont. Doug Rohrer responded to my initial post on this topic with a good refactoring of the classes involved in a manner similar to the Strategy pattern. I agree with many of his points—the ... http://www.thycotic.com/the-danger-of-single-responsibility-in-programming-continued If you can solve the problem below, you may just have what it takes. www.thycotic.com/codetest.txt Please submit your solution with your resume and cover letter in an email to TDDjobs@thycotic.com At Thycotic you'll join a highly capable team of .NET developers who work on consulting projects for clients, and interesting products. Improve your ... http://www.thycotic.com/want-to-join-a-team-of-top-notch-developers-in-the-dc-metro-area November 17th 2009 | Kevin Jones The AJAX UpdatePanel: Is it your worst enemy? A recent code camp presentation I did sparked a debate about the “UpdatePanel” in AJAX. It’s no secret I believe it barely qualifies as real AJAX at all. Most AJAX Frameworks have the UpdatePanel, and they are all similar ... http://www.thycotic.com/the-ajax-updatepanel-is-it-your-worst-enemy November 163th 2009 | Jonathan Cogley and Dan Parker Thycotic brings Password Management to SuperComputing 2009 Thycotic will be in Portland Oregon this week, exhibiting at SuperComputing from November 14th to the 20th . Stop by our booth (#354) to catch a peek of the iPhone version of Secret Server enterprise ... http://www.thycotic.com/thycotic-brings-password-management-to-supercomputing-2009 November 13th 2009 | Jimmy Bosse Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four Whew! Day Four (officially day Three, but I am counting the pre-conference workshop)came to a close with the famous “64-bit Question” session where .NET Rocks! hosts Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell gave away some fantastic swag, like $10,000 Team ... http://www.thycotic.com/top-10-takeaways-from-devconnections-day-four November 10th 2009 | Jimmy Bosse Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Three Wednesday seemed to go at a breakneck pace. The sessions I attended on Tuesday were all given by Microsoft employees and only one presenter used VS 2008. These presentations were all about how I was going to get things done ... http://www.thycotic.com/top-10-takeaways-from-devconnections-day-three November 10th 2009 | Jimmy Bosse Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Two Tuesday at DevConnections (#devconnections) was a whirlwind of excellent sessions by the Microsoft ASP.NET team. It started with the Keynote by Scott Guthrie (@scottgu) and went on to feature what's new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS 2010 Web Development. ... http://www.thycotic.com/top-10-takeaways-from-devconnections-day-two