BusinessRx Reading List

What’s Wrong With This Code? (#20)

OdeToCode Blogs — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:12:00 GMT

Mike had to model answers. Yes or no answers, date and time answers - all sorts of answers. One catch was that any answer could be “missing” or could be “empty”. Both values had distinct meanings in the domain. An interface definition fell out of the...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:22:52 GMT

This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You can download the new release here . This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently...(read more)

Quick Update

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:21:59 GMT

I've received a number of (very nice) emails recently asking if I was ok - since my blog has been silent the last few weeks (and much of the summer). Just to address people's concerns - I'm alive and well. :-) I've just been on vacation the...(read more)

Stupid LINQ Tricks

OdeToCode Blogs — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:13:00 GMT

Over a month ago I did a presentation on LINQ and promised a few people I’d share the code from the session. Better late than never, eh? We warmed up by building our own filtering operator to use in a query. The operator takes an Expression<Predicate<T>>,...(read more)

How Do You Configure the Visual Studio IDE?

Scott on Writing — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

I don't know about you, but when it comes to programming I am very particular about whitespace. When updating old code originally written by someone else, the first thing I do is “clean up” the code, injecting whitespace, tabs, and whatnot in the positions...(read more)

Why is Programming Fun?

Scott on Writing — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:18:00 GMT

I recently started reading Fred Brooks, Jr. 's The Mythical Man Month , an influential collection of essays on software project management. In the introductory essay he has a paragraph that starts with the following words: "Why is programming fun? What...(read more)

Speculative Development and YAGNI

Scott on Writing — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:55:00 GMT

It's amazing how much time speculative development can swallow up during the course of a project. Speculative development happens when a developer implements features above and beyond the requirements based on the assumption that he'll need such functionality...(read more)

Download CopySourceAsHtml

Scott on Writing — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:50:00 GMT

CopySourceAsHtml (CSAH) is a free Visual Studio Add-In created by Colin Coller that turns Visual Studio code - with its indentation, color coding, and line numbers - into corresponding HTML with a few points and clicks of the mouse. This Add-In is great...(read more)

The Cast is Off! I've Got Two Functional Hands Again!

Scott on Writing — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:25:00 GMT

On July 15th I broke my right hand playing basketball, which resulted in a cast that severely limited the mobility and dexterity of my right hand and fingers. Today the cast came off! I am back to having all ten fingers available for typing, writing,...(read more)

Problems Installing SQL Server 2008 After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1? Make Sure You've Updated or Uninstalled Visual Web Developer!

Scott on Writing — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Certain features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If VS 2008 SP1 is not installed the SQL Server installation will abort with the following error message: "A previous release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is installed on...(read more)

RSS Advertising with The Lounge

Infozerk Inc.: averyBlog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:35:56 GMT

The RSS Room of the The Lounge is now live. The Publishers are still working on getting their feeds setup, but I hope in a week or so to have everyone setup and the first real advertisements running. RSS Advertising represents a new way for publishers...(read more)

Codestock

Infozerk Inc.: averyBlog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:43:13 GMT

Friday afternoon Kevin Hazzard and Justin Etheredge made a stop in Raleigh to pick me on their way to CodeStock. Nothing makes a six hour trip go by as quickly as riding with two very smart and fun developers. We got in around 6 or 7 and went to the pre-conference...(read more)

Visual Studio SP1 and The Metification of REST

OdeToCode Blogs — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Metification – verb The act of adding metadata to a web service in order to facilitate tooling and discovery. The act of adding complexity to a web service in order to achieve tight coupling. Pick one. Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 has just arrived...(read more)

August Lounge Update

Infozerk Inc.: averyBlog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:19:41 GMT

July was another great month for The Lounge, we picked up some new advertisers in Gurock Software (the makers of SmartInspect ) and Lite Accounting . We also added some great new members to The Lounge. I announced Scott joining The Lounge a couple weeks...(read more)

New Phone Number, New Phone, and 4 years of Infozerk

Infozerk Inc.: averyBlog — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:41:47 GMT

When I got my first check as an independent I bought myself a 40GB iPod. This month marked four years of being an independent consultant (I have some more posts about this coming up) and that seemed like the perfect justification to buy the wife and I...(read more)