And now for something completely different. Today I finished my first ever robot. She is a nice little color sorter. Now Ms. Color Sortress only likes to sort the color of the first ball she sees. Ones she got hold of all three of them, she falls asleep. More…
Working every day with our favorite development environment, we sometimes forget the relative long history behind it. How did Visual Studio evolve over the years. Do you remember? Here’s a little reminder once made in celebration of the Visual Studio 2010 launch. More…
Today I had a little discussion with a coworker on how to defend ourselves from the horrors of ‘management’. The night before I got inspired watching a great session by Peter Provost at the ALM Summit 2011. More…
Unit testing, like Scrum, feels sometimes a bit counter intuitive. Even if my more knowledgeable colleagues tell me over and over again the importance of test driven development, I tend to code first and test (maybe) later. More…
Just watched a fine jQuery presentation from the DevDays 2011 in the Netherlands. Gill Cleeren, .Net architect from Belgium, talks you through the ins and outs of the jQuery library. An hour and a half all about selectors, attributes, working with WCF and jQuery UI. More…
Just finished a long winded presentation from Scott Hanselman on Channel 9 where he urges every developer to interact online. He stated that twenty years ago, a developer was as good as the manual, closely followed by the lastest MSDN subscription. More…
