Back in the saddle
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,...
View ArticleWhat an ASP.NET Developer should know about jQuery
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...
View ArticleTop 10 mistakes in .NET Unit Testing
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...
View ArticleFor developers, Agile is about being on the defensive
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...
View ArticleCIA Triad and the Fundamentals of Computer Security
Just a pointer to dust of some of the key principles of system security. The CIA Triad is an industry standard security model developed to help us think about important aspects of the security of our...
View ArticleDocumentary The History of Microsoft Visual Studio
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...
View ArticleLEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 MsColorSortress
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...
View ArticleMindstorms Nxt Robot Performing QuickSort Algorithm
It’s robot time once again. After creating Ms. ColorSortress I decided it was time to create a .Net driven Lego bot. This cheesy robot, called SortAlgoBot, performs a classic Quicksort sorting...
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