Jonathan Cogley's Blog
C#, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, MVP C#, ASPInsider, Secret Server
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Code Camp hits DC area in May!
Andrew Duthie (the Mid-Atlantic Microsoft .NET Developer Evangelist) mentions that Code Camp will be coming to the DC area in May. Stay posted for details of this full day FREE technology fest with lots of great technical content from the local community. This promises to be a local event that you don't want to miss.
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Ultimate Pair Programming Setup might not be so ultimate.
Jeff talks about some of our new ideas and options for improving the old "Ultimate Pair Programming Setup". Some of the obstacles we are trying to overcome are:
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Pair Programming as an interview tool
Jeff Langr talks about his experiences in Pair Programming Observations. Some interesting perspectives on pairing developers of different skill levels, the benefits to different stakeholders and best practices when pairing.
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Adding CAPTCHA to FlexWiki
Blog spam sucks but being hosted on weblogs.asp.net doesn't leave a lot of options at the moment. Blog spam could seen as a personal attack on your good nature and an attempt to mess with your small expression outlet to the rest of the world? Wiki spam on the company wiki however, is outright war! :-)
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Pair Programming breaks
Jeff Schoolcraft has an interesting post on Pair Programming and how it influences your break schedule. Two people working together certainly helps to avoid distraction and remain "on task" (asides from all the other benefits) but is it unhealthy? Should there be a "pairing-o-meter" which turns red at some point and causes the pair to stretch their legs before the dreaded window incident Jeff alludes to? :-)
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C# Teaser - The Tricky Ternary Teaser?
Today we came across a little quirk that is worth sharing. Big thanks to Bob Flanders and Jeff Schoolcraft for help in figuring out the quirk.
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Programming Contest by EggHeadCafe ... just Regex?
Rafael Munoz pointed me towards a Programming Contest By EggHeadCafe in his latest MVP Update Newsletter. Reading through their criteria ...
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Interview with SD Times on C#/VS.NET 2005 ... fear of the sound byte!
A few weeks back, Bob Flanders (a fellow consultant) and I gave an interview to SD Times reporter, Jennifer deJong on our experiences with C# and the features we were anxious for in the Whidbey release.
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Jeff Schoolcraft joins Thycotic as Senior Technology Consultant
Jeff Schoolcraft has recently joined Thycotic Software Ltd as a Senior Technology Consultant specializing in .NET and TDD practices. I am very pleased to welcome Jeff to the company. Jeff is also the president of the WinProTeam Vienna User Group which helps to further expand our activities in the community.
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"Copy and Paste Programming" - the TDD way.
Setting the scene...
You are building your second large TDD project for a new client. Some of the requirements are almost identical to the last TDD project. Management is aware of this and expects some form of code reuse to occur that will save budget and time. The functionality required is separated well in the code and design but is still tied to the business tier in deployment and cannot be easily isolated in binary form.