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Another thing I like about Vista: when apps die, they kind of fade to a paler, washed out whiter colour. Makes me think they're heading for the light... Read More

These are things I see popping up a bit these days. I like the way they expose their intent through the "fluency" of the language of the statements. For example, I've been used to writing asserts in my unit tests like so: 1: Assert.AreEqual("This Read More

I'm just reading Pete Goodliffe's Code Craft. I'm only at the beginning of the book and he's devoted a chapter to coding standards, reinforcing my own belief that good code presentation goes a long way towards good code. One of the things he neglects, Read More

Don't. Well, don't if you're building an ASP.NET application that's going to run in a walled off environment on a shared server. Why? Well, it's an interesting issue of security, you see. Strange isn't it, that the Data Protection API has security issues? Read More

It's just struck me that this particular industry could mean the end of retirement as we know it. If you take any other industry, whether it's banking or truck driving, when you hit 65 you are done. You're obviously old, and there's a prejudice against Read More

I have been thinking about why managers (or those who are in charge of projects - whatever they may be called) have such trouble with the concept of the "extra" work involved in test driven development, and I think I've figured it out. There's a disparity Read More