May, 2009

The next sections are fairly straight-forward.  Here’s a summary of some of the keypoints: Without a good problem definition, you might spend a lot of time solving the wrong problem … and never solve the right one. Requirements enable the user to...

The How Do I? Series has extended their reach to YouTube with their DeveloperVideo Channel. This is a great one-stop shopping for short how-to videos on whatever your interested (or stuck on) for the moment. They have a number of series of videos to grow...

In answer to the question from last week’s section , according to Code Complete, software construction can account for up to 65% of the total project cost! One of the challenges we all face is working on a team with others. Typically others on your team...

Random .NET Ramblings talks about Terrarium , a game created to learn .NET programming.  He used this game at UCSD to get students a head start with .NET.   “Back in the day Microsoft created a code base to be used to help people learn...

The release of ASP.NET MVC Preview 3, included improved support for NUNIT Templates.  A Coder’s Life walks through a tutorial on How to setup NUnit with Visual Web Developer Express 2008 edition using ASP.NET MVC 1.0.  Read the full article...

Pictures of technical moms with their pictures are starting to arrive!  Check them out at: http://oreilly.com/go/techmoms O’Reilly is collecting pictures of Technical Moms for their O’Reilly Mother’s Day Page and discount.  Take a pic with your...

Our Technical Book Club is underway with our first book Code Complete , but it’s never too late to join!  Some people have written to ask how to get involved, so I thought I’d pull together a post. Buy, beg, or borrow :  Code Complete: A Practical...

Code Complete is all about Software Construction.  What? You probably never faced a course on software construction in school … or did you.  Some key points from this chapter: Software Construction includes detailed design, coding, debugging...

Huge Congratulations to all the Imagine Cup participants and winners!  Here are your 2009 US Imagine Cup winners: 1st Place:  Multi-Point Web ($8,000 trip to Cairo, Egypt for WW finals) 2nd Place:  Mango Bunnies ($4,000) 3rd Place: ...

Windows Connected announces the release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now open to the public.  Download Windows 7 RC Here From Windows Connected, Things you should know: This build will expire on June 1, 2010 and you will start seeing...

The results are in for the top 3 US finalists in Imagine Cup, Multi-Point Web, Special Child, and Mango Bunnies are all competing first prize!  Congratulations!! Later today will be the big announcement of who took #1, #2, and #3.  Imagine Cup...

O’Reilly is collecting pictures of Technical Moms for their O’Reilly Mother’s Day Page and discount.  Take a pic with your O’Reilly books and send it into press@oreilly.com .  They plan to post a picture page of technical mom’s with their books...

Microsoft Student Partners in the US had a Demo-off to create videos of coolest technologies that they love, from desktop to Visual Studio features here are some of the top entries. o Vista Sidebar - PC Marie and Nerdy Ned demonstrate how to use Windows...

In just 24 hours, O’Reilly responds to my tweet for mother’s day discounts on technical books !  Give a technical book for Mother’s day using the code MDAYT for 40% discount at http://oreilly.com . What are you getting for the technical women in...

My challenge to you :  What discounts can you offer for technical moms on Mother’s Day to tell the Women in Tech Story? On Thursday I had a fantastic interaction on Twitter with Tim O’Reilly , co-author of the upcoming Twitter Book , founder and...