A few weeks ago, I had the honor of attending a talk by Ivar Jacobson on his new Essential Unified Process (EUP) . It was Jacobson, along with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh , that developed UML and the Rational Unified Process. At the core of EUP is...

For years, we software developers fell into the beautiful deception of Moore’s Law – that temptingly wonderful promise that transistor counts would double every 18 months and that our software would run faster and faster with no work on our part. And...

More than likely, your one of the millions of programmers that needs to check a string for null or empty a couple of times a day. Thankfully, .NET 2.0 has finally provided a handy function for doing this in one easy call: IsNullOrEmpty(System.String)...

My name is Josh Harrison, a Software Design Engineer in Microsoft's Developer Division. I hold a Master's in Computer Science from the University of South Alabama , and have six years of professional software engineering experience. In the world of technology...