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GRDD - We 'R Published...
Joe and I have been working in secret on the first edition of our GRDD (Git 'R Done Development) book. No one knew about it until we started looking for a publisher. We are happy to announce that O'Reilly saw a prime opportunity to publish a book that presents a clear and concise reference to GRDD by it's creator (Joe) and its chief evangelist (me).
Here's the cover page...
Here's the link.
Hah! Gotcha! D-Coder sent the link to a fairly useless but fun item over at O'Reilly. Basically it's an image maker that let's you create any book cover... wanna create...
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IE8 Thoughts...
Bertrand Le Roy had a post over the weekend (actually Friday, but I missed it) about the new IE8 meta-tag fix for standards mode... Well, Bertrand through support for the author over at ArsTechnica. As a web guy I have given this all some thought.
First of all so you don't have to slough through the 2 pages on ARS let me give you the summary version:
IE 5.5 and before was very standards non-complaint. It had numerous rendering issues that web designers had to figure out how to work around.
With IE6, MS tried to fix this by using the DOCTYPE attribute...
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LINQ to SQL in under 15 minutes...
This is the first in what I hope becomes a series of video/blog posts from me. My goal with this video/post is to provide a 10-15 minute video (or text you can read quickly) that covers LINQ to SQL. You'll learn how to set up the environment, how to do a select from the database, and finally how to save your changes back to the database. You will NOT learn everything, but this should be a great starting point (if someone wants to copy this format for a video/post on some other topic, please feel free). So start your stop...
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Wow! Someone gets it!
[This post is in response to a post (actually a couple posts) that Roy Osherove has recently posted on TypeMock... go read it first].
Roy is hitting right into what I was trying to say all those years on CodeBetter when I was "battling" a few of my then co-bloggers. It's the dogmatic aspects of TDD that scare many of us.
Not only that one has to do TDD, but to do it as a "way to a better architecture" which implies that "thou shalt always use pattern x." I have argued many times over... what if what I'm doing is fairly...
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Missing Gunderloy's Daily Grind? How about an alternative?
I have to say that until recently I have really missed Mike Gunderloy's Daily Grind. I respect his reasonings for moving on (even if I don't agree 100% with him). He always had a good way of distilling the news for me. And often found things before I could read them elsewhere.
There are a few others out there, but one recently linked to a blog post of mine and I would like to draw your attention to it. It has replaced the Daily Grind in my RSS reader, and since I found it I don't miss Mike's daily blog as...
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Git 'R Done is still alive and well at TheRunTime...
Wade and I were chatting in email today and I realized that it had been a bit since I have written on Git 'R Done Development (GRDD). While I would recognize that GRDD might not be as lofty as XP or any of the Agile dev methodologies, it is still important for us because it reminds us of the overall goal: meeting the clients needs as quickly as possible.
I know I took jabs at this in the past and people compared the idea to Gun-to-the-Head Development, but that's where we are talking about management making decisions that may or may...
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Support Hell... HP-Style...
[I apologize that this is a little ranting... trying to be a "kinder gentler" blogger, but this was just too much to not go off on (and maybe I'll find the solution)].
Last night I was on the HP site. I was looking to upgrade my Wife's PDA (an Ipaq HX2415) from PPC2003SE to Windows Mobile 5. Before I continue, you may ask "why are you waiting this long to look for it?" I can only answer that with a reference to one of Scott Hanselman's acronyms... the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor)... My wife was very happy with the unit as is......
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Don't fear the Linq Query... it's often a variation of a foreach loop
I've talked to a few programming associates who seem to be a little scared of Linq (mainly because they want to know what is happening under the covers. While I am not the one to explain it (I would recommend Manning's Linq In Action... BTW, that's the direct buy link from James Wooley's -- one of the authors -- blog... so if anyone makes money it will be him), I can explain a few simple things.
If you have ever written code like this:
1: void myFunction(List<SomeClass> objects) 2: { 3: foreach(SomeClass...
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New bloggers at TheRunTime.com
We've all been busy around here lately and we haven't had a chance to announce a few new additions to our blog community.
I'd like to welcome Tony Mariani (Aka "Tony Quest"), Jacob Proffitt, and Wade Wegner.
Wade has been blogging for a bit already.... if you look at his original blog you'll see that he has blogged on Biztalk, Commerce Server, MOSS (SharePoint), MS Ajax, SilverLight, WPF, and TFS (just to name a few things). [Since I am just getting to know him myself, I'll let him introduce himself... Needless to say he's going to add some much desired discussions...
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Quit being so paranoid in your installer...
Ok, I gotta grip about this. With the new years comes a bit of cleanup on one of my machines (actually I need to rebuild it, but that's another story); also a contract is ending and I am removing my personal software from the machine that I used at work.
So I'm removing software some of it unused and some of it simply because I don't want others using my license on a machine I no longer control.
One of the most annoying habits that a few companies have gotten into is hitting me with a "survey" (in my browser) in the...
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TRT and 2008...
First of all, sorry TheRunTime.com (TRT) has been a little low on posts lately. WIth the holidays I figure that very few people are reading as well as bloggers tend to get a little busy (I was finishing up the end of my current contract... BTW, if you are interested in hiring an independent programming consultant, give me a wring). I have been holding off on a couple posts until now.
We will be adding 2 new bloggers shortly. Actually 1 of the bloggers has already been added, but he's not quite ready to start (Eric will probably intriduce him in a...
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MS Live Labs Volta Final Thoughts
The word "final" in this post ought to clue you in... I'm not a huge Volta fan after playing with it. That doesn't mean that you will dislike it... in fact if you are into using a language other than C#, you might totally dig it.
It's been written about in a few (well probably more than a few) other places. It's the invention of Eric Meijer and what it does is convert IL code to Javascript and server side code. It does for .NET what Google's GWT does for Java.
For the most part you code against the normal .NET model with...