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There, I Fixed It is a hilarious photoblog that catalogs kludges , jury rigs and hastily-improvised duct-tape repairs and modifications to everyday objects. The photos below are a sample of some of the quick fixes shown on the site, each one somewhere
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It’s one thing to see an article on pair programming in a a book, magazine or site that concerns itself with software development, but it’s something completely different when you see it covered in the New York Times . Still, that’s exactly the topic
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In my capacity as a developer evangelist for Microsoft, I’ve posted mostly C# code. I find that languages like Python and Ruby are very good not just as languages for production code, but also as great prototyping or “sketching out an idea” languages,
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Over at my personal technical blog, Global Nerdy , I’ve got a few posts covering some presentations and goings-on at a few open source programming conferences and gatherings that you might want to check out.: Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology:
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Following up on the previous article about the SOLID principles for object-oriented design , Steve Bohlen pointed me to a series of screencasts on DimeCasts.net covering each SOLID principle: S – Single Responsibility Principle O – Open-Closed Principle
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SOLID Seems to be Everywhere These Days Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin first gathered the object-oriented design principles that would eventually go under the acronym SOLID almost fifteen years ago, but the SOLID principles have been making the rounds lately.
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You’ve got to hand it to ObjectSharp : when they do a parody, they pull out all the stops: Next Thursday, June 9th – exactly one week from today -- ObjectSharp will host Silverlight on the Silver Screen , a presentation on the upcoming revision of Silverlight,
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31 Days of SIlverlight is a series of blog posts posted through the month of July by Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg (yes, the same guy behind the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, which was covered in the previous post ). For each day in
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The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever is a new puzzle site aimed at programmers in the same vein as web-based puzzle challenges such as notpron , Rankk and Python Challenge . Created by Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg , “TDPE” consists of
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There are a lot of applications out there today that were built using Visual Basic 6, Microsoft’s last version of Visual Basic before we released the .NET framework. In fact, there are several companies that still use VB6 as a development platform
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It’s easy to point to books on understanding and improving the inner workings of your code, the software and hardware platforms on which it runs and even the processes used in developing it. It’s much harder to find one on understanding and improving
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Having trouble manipulating Office documents or creating them on the fly? The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) allows you to effectively work with Open XML packages. Using the API, you can generate and manipulate Word 2007 documents, Excel
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Over the next several months Technical communities around the world are hosting Community Launch events focusing on technical dives of Microsoft Windows Server 2008™, Visual Studio 2008™, and SQL Server 2008™. Community leaders have been trained directly
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The realDEVELOPMENT_07 tour is coming to a Canadian city near you, and the focus is helping you be successful in your day to day jobs. This half day event will provide you with cool tips, tricks and tools to help you tackle the real Web development challenges
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It seems to me that almost every technology publication these days is talking about how innovative Company X is, how non-innovative Company Y is and how innovation is the difference between what makes a company good or great. I would also argue that public
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