SharePoint (the silent killer)

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Book Review: Effective C#

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Although not his first book on C#, Bill Wagner really became noticed in the .NET community after writing Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#.
First off, this is not a C# reference guide. Instead, this is a collection of concrete arguments for using particular C# structures over their counterparts.
The greatest thing I […]

Refactorbation

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re·fac·tor·ba·tion - [re-fak-ter-bey-shuhn]
–noun

  1. To stimulate oneself through endless refactoring exercises towards unattainable perfection

Synonyms: codesterbation

Software Engineer vs. Code Artist

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Is software development engineering or artistry?
This long running debate received new life when Steve McConnell gave a fiery reply to an IEEE Computer article titled “Software Development : What is the problem?“. Eric Wise has now stirred the pot with his post Rejecting Software Engineering.
Personally I wonder why everyone thinks they are […]

The Dangers of Git ‘R Done

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Jay Kimble recently wrote a post titled Git ‘R Done coding. I will agree that there is a needs to be a trade off between expediency and maintainability, but it saddens me to see that a lot of people are blindly supporting this mentality without researching the dangers.
Morts and younger programmers may […]

Squeezed Links: June 2007

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Asshole Driven Development - A hilarious and honest play on our industry acronyms by Scott Berkun.
Classic Mistakes Updated - Steve McConnell updated his Classic Mistakes list as originally written in the timeless book Rapid Development.
In Programming, One Is The Loneliest Number - Great post on the dangers of programming alone.
Spindrift - How many degrees of […]

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