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Around the Net #5
Posted by benoit on 16 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Agile, Around the Net, design, ramblings
St-Patrick’s Day is this week-end…Get your green beer ready!
Agile
Pete Behrens tells of his experience transitioning a company to Agile in a big way. They went “all in” as the poker analogy goes.
Design
IanG is ranting about the poor design of pop-up windows who steal focus away from you. I sympathize with him entirely, as this has caused me heartburn in the past.
Patrick Smacchia has an interesting article about avoiding dependencies in your .NET components. Well worth a look.
Cory Foy points out there is a C# Design Patterns Group and they are holding a contest on the Decorator Pattern. Have a look, fame (if not fortune) might await the winner! Dang…another mailing list to subscribe to?!
Ted Graham has a good example of a realistic log4net config file. As we use log4net in one of our program, this came in handy! (via The Daily Grind)
Community
Resharper 3.0 EAP is available. This is one of the tools that I find invaluable (via The Daily Grind).
Jeremy Miller make a good point that even if your primary business is .NET, you shouldn’t be so blind or arrogant as to not look around at other languages. This applies regardless of what you’re doing (like C, C++, assembler, C#, VB…) (via Sam Gentile)
Around the Net #2
Posted by benoit on 13 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Agile, Around the Net, embedded
The integration I do now has nothing to do with the integration I did in college. Calculus was easier…
Agile
Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning, was interviewed by Dina Henry-Scott of Controlling Chaos. Get it here.
Test-Driven Development
Roy Osherove puts a new twist on the age-old practice of code reviews: Test Reviews. He asserts it is actually easier to find logic errors by reviewing the tests.
TestDriven.NET 2.4 Beta is available. With support for NUnit 2.4 RC2. (via The Daily Grind)
Embedded
Some tidbits from Jack Ganssle’s newsletter. DO subscribe!
The Embedded System Conference will be in San Jose, April 1-5. On the menu: the teardown of a Toyota Prius, Al Gore as the keynote speaker, Orange County Chopper in attendance (will Mikey be there?)
Ralf Holly wrote an interesting article on Compile Time Assertions for Doctor Dobb’s Journal. It’s an oldie but a goodie!
Intel, the company that launched the embedded systems industry with their four-bit 4004 in 1971, has announced the end-of-life for most of their embedded processors. The MCS51, MCS251, MCS96, 80X18X, 80X386, 80X486, and i960 will no longer be available. Last buy is March 30, 2007, with final shipments made by September 28.
If you will be porting Linux to an embedded system, take a serious look at “Embedded Linux Primer, A Practical Real-World Approach” by Christopher Hallinan. It goes into much details of what is involved in embedding Linux.
Former Colleague Doug Gaff has a wrap-up of EclipseCon 2007. Why is this under embedded? Because Doug works for WindRiver and they are using eclipse all over the place; builds, debugging, hardware bring-up. Device Software Development Platform… Thinking eclipse = Java is soooo 20th century.
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In right under the wire…
Posted by benoit on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, C++, ramblings
We got this one right under the wire, thanks to Harry Connick Jr.’s New Orleans Tour.
I would point you to Roy Osherove’s entry on Object Oriented design for Testing. I like it!
Just finished listening to Scott Hanselman’s Hanselminute #49 with Bruce Payette - interesting stuff about PowerShell. A new book I just have to have. If you’re an system administrator on Windows, do yourself a favor and learn PowerShell. Your life will never be the same.
The Old New Thing…for uber hardcore win32 users
Posted by benoit on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, ramblings
Blame .NET Rocks Episode #211…Yet another blog to add to my growing list…Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing is all about the win32 core API. The man has been working in the guts of the windows operating system since early Windows 95. Probably only interesting to those who like writing device drivers for fun 
Talking about .NET Rocks, don’t miss the 2/27 episode with Eric Sink…if you are interested in the business of software, Eric’s blog (and his book) is a must read. Dang, this weeks episode is with Steve McConnell…You did read Code Complete didn’t you? Too much good stuff, not enough time…
SharpToolbox - way cool resource
Posted by benoit on 22 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: .NET
Thanks to the Daily Grind #1084, I just found out about SharpToolbox, a repository of over 1000 tools and libraries…all that yummy goodness awaits you…