In Favor of RDD (Resume Driven Development)
An argument offering the good side of "resume driven development"
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How strongly does Google believe in web applications?
Google is talking about the end of desktop applications. However, when it comes down to business it is still very firmly planted in the rich desktop... more »
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Cloud Computing As An Economic Catalyst
AlvinAshcraft 
via blogs.msdn.com
The PDC was full of proper geeks as I like to call them – people who write code and talk fluent machine language. i.e. not me…for us mere mortals I... more »
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Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint : Project Templates or Item Templates
AlvinAshcraft via blogs.msdn.com
Probably the first thing you play with in the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint is to create a web part. The default project naming can... more »
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Configurable indentation for NHaml
AlvinAshcraft via codeclimber.net.nz
NHaml, an alternative view engine for ASP.NET MVC written by Andrew Peters, uses indentation instead of opening and closing tags to identify code... more »
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Emergent Complexity
AlvinAshcraft via codethinked.com
This weekend, after the Raleigh Code Camp, James Avery put on an Open Spaces conference called Shadow Camp. It was a small group of people who came... more »
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Where TDD fails for me
AlvinAshcraft via lostechies.com
TDD is by far the sharpest tool in my belt. The simplicity of client-driven design combined with the safety net of unit tests allow me to build... more »
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PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern
AlvinAshcraft via lostechies.com
This post talks about the Composite Design Pattern and is part of Pablo's Topic of the Month - November: Design Patterns. A Composite is a tree... more »
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Framework Design Guidelines: Scenario Driven Framework Design
AlvinAshcraft via blogs.msdn.com
Ccontinuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2nd edition.. This annotation... more »
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Spike Code and Source Control
AlvinAshcraft via odetocode.com
Jeremy’s post “Don’t Check In Spike Code” reminds of something I’ve advocated for years: dedicate a place in your source control repository where each... more »
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Modeling Cartoon
AlvinAshcraft via masteringbiztalk.com
Somehow I missed this earlier. Hilarious. Modeling explained for managers.
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Missed the PDC? Catch the content live at the MSDN Developer Conference
AlvinAshcraft via blogs.msdn.com
We’re bringing the PDC to you! For just $99 you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear all of the exciting announcements around the... more »
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When Will the Floppy Disk Die as a Save Icon?
AlvinAshcraft via community.irritatedvowel.com
I was snagging some icons to go into a comp of a Silverlight LOB application today when I realized that some of the metaphors used in the software... more »
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Retrospectives in Retrospect
The retrospective mantra, the recommended books and more...
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Defending Scrum
Recently Scrum has been taking a bit of a battering in the wider community, being made to take responsibility for some of the perceived failings of... more »
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The metadata dilemma
Java EE development has been packed with lots of metadata since day one. Things have changed a lot over times and we have been provided with more... more »
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Cloudy RetryPolicy from the Azure framework
One of the little gems found in the Windows Azure SDK Sources is the RetryPolicy development pattern. It allows to define complex policies that allow... more »
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Typestate checker - introduction
So far, specifying the state space of an object, which methods can be called in which states, and how methods change the state, is done mainly in... more »
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