Manicprogrammer

First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the ''final'' version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections of AJAX or having to learn Flash. For example, take a look at what we've done with Inkubook. ...

Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system. On many teams, the management group has the authority, while the developers have the ...

There is no need to attempt to determine the net effect of cities on costs in general. First of all, there is no such thing as costs in general. There are particular costs that matter differently to particular individuals and enterprises, and those individuals and enterprises can weigh for themselves the various costs and benefits that affect ...

A doctor, of course. And, by extension, what do you call somebody who passes a certification test with the minimum passing score? Certified! I'm glad to be done with it, even though I put off the second part over a year. I'm officially done with the 2005 certifications! Here's what I end up with having passed the two MCSD upgrade tests:MCTS: .NET ...

I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or whatever.   select     i.DisplayName Person,    COUNT( ...

I'd just like to say that it's VERY frustrating that the Team Build environment uses a different folder structure than the desktop build environment. Why can't the relative path between the build's .proj file and the solution root stay the same on both... grrr...  

Still working on the TFS Beta 2 install... down to one (hopefully) problem now... at least I'm going to have to assume it's the last bug since it' in the last step (Upgrading Team Build).More later! 

Slipped my mind, but installing TFS 2005 also requires SharePoint. SharePoint installation sucks. SharePoint trashes out anything .NET-based that's installed on the default web site.  Vault is a .NET product installed on the default web site. (hey! Don't anticipate the train wreck... I didn't have the benefit of ...

Great analysis by Corey at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LeanSoftwareEngineering/~3/142106190/ This part especially hits home with how I feel about things I've seen (emphasis mine): ''Software methodology’s understanding of the meaning of quality, reliability, and customer utility is positively retarded in comparison to the understanding of ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx This is pure torture... TFS 2008's still only in beta 2, and he's already tormenting me with the things that the NEXT version will have, but I can't have now unless I want to install an early CTP... ...

Well not really a rant, more of a lamentation that Blend, like every other [web] designer before it, doesn't really understand the concept of dynamic layout. WPF finally offers a VERY dynamic layout system, but blend, when you move things around still hard codes sizes and/or margins to make the dynamic containers (grids, dock panels, and stack ...

My understanding of the .NET design philosophy is that if you handle an event with an empty handler, it should behave essentially as if you had not handled the event at all.  This may not be the case, but it seems to be in most things... if you handle the Close window event and don't do anything, the window still closes. However, with WPF, ...