Microsoft's DDCPX Team Blog has a category for "after-market solutions." Their goal is to "help ease your pain by providing solutions for problems for which hotfixes and service packs don’t make sense."What are some examples of after-market solutions?To put this more concretely, here are some types of after-market solutions that can make your...

Microsoft's DDCPX Team Blog has a category for "after-market solutions." Their goal is to "help ease your pain by providing solutions for problems for which hotfixes and service packs don’t make sense."What are some examples of after-market solutions?To put this more concretely, here are some types of after-market solutions that can make your...

Clarke Ching is working on a white paper that shows how to use Test-Driven Development in Excel to solve Roman numeral problems. He's looking for your feedback!

Clarke Ching is working on a white paper that shows how to use Test-Driven Development in Excel to solve Roman numeral problems. He's looking for your feedback!

Mary Poppendieck is working on a new book, Lean Software Development: An Implementation Guide. As the title implies this book shows how to do all the things we learned in the first book. The web site offers rough drafts of as Mary completes them. It also links to the Yahoo discussion group. It looks great so far.

Mary Poppendieck is working on a new book, Lean Software Development: An Implementation Guide. As the title implies this book shows how to do all the things we learned in the first book. The web site offers rough drafts of as Mary completes them. It also links to the Yahoo discussion group. It looks great so far.

I was just reading Joel's forward to the book Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Is anyone else tired of the fact that his entire writing these days is consumed with his anti-Microsoft-ity? I read Joel because he used to offer thoughtful, well-written articles on writing good software. I still read his blog, but his current pandering to the...

I was just reading Joel's forward to the book Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Is anyone else tired of the fact that his entire writing these days is consumed with his anti-Microsoft-ity? I read Joel because he used to offer thoughtful, well-written articles on writing good software. I still read his blog, but his current pandering to the...

Though some people don’t like the UML, its value as a modeling notation cannot be overlooked. Although I’m not a strict UML purist, neither believing in UmlAsBlueprint or UmlAsProgrammingLanguage instead opting for UmlAsSketch. Here are some great (free) resources for getting up to speed on the UML: Online study aids: Scott Ambler's guide:...

Though some people don’t like the UML, its value as a modeling notation cannot be overlooked. Although I’m not a strict UML purist, neither believing in UmlAsBlueprint or UmlAsProgrammingLanguage instead opting for UmlAsSketch. Here are some great (free) resources for getting up to speed on the UML: Online study aids: Scott Ambler's guide:...

The Richmond MSDN Code Camp is calling for presentations!   When?     April 22, 2006   Where?    ECPI Technical College - Moorefield Campus    800 Moorefield Park Drive    Richmond, VA 23236   You can read more at www.RichmondCodeCamp.org.  We hope to see you there!

The Richmond MSDN Code Camp is calling for presentations!   When?     April 22, 2006   Where?    ECPI Technical College - Moorefield Campus    800 Moorefield Park Drive    Richmond, VA 23236   You can read more at www.RichmondCodeCamp.org.  We hope to see you there!

After installing Firefox 1.5 on a brand new laptop, I tried reinstalling trusty old ChromEdit. Unfortunately it doesn't install on Firefox versions later than 1.0.7. After some digging around, I found this useful FAQ: The ChromEdit extension is recommended, but I can't find a version that will install on newer versions of Firefox or...

After installing Firefox 1.5 on a brand new laptop, I tried reinstalling trusty old ChromEdit. Unfortunately it doesn't install on Firefox versions later than 1.0.7. After some digging around, I found this useful FAQ: The ChromEdit extension is recommended, but I can't find a version that will install on newer versions of Firefox or...

You owe it to yourself to read Scott Allen's post Design Patterns: A Love Story.