March 2006 - Posts

Framewok Design Guidelines Wins Productivity Award
A couple of months ago, Brad blogged about the FDG book getting into the Jolt Award finals. The winners were just announced and we have won the Productivity Award! I am shocked … that Brad did not blogged this information first! :-) On that occasion, Read More...
Framework Design Humor by Benji Smith
Benji wrote a pretty funny article exposing one of the main problems with bad APIs: trying to enable every single scenario at the wrong level of abstraction. In other words, when your APIs get too complex, think whether you are not trying to enable scenarios Read More...
Extending System.Diagnostics tracing APIs
The April issue of the MSDN Magazine just went on line. It contains an article I wrote that describes some advanced extensibility supported by System.Diagnostic tracing APIs. It talks about creating custom TraceListeners, Switches, and TraceSources. Read More...
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