Jeremy has a couple of nice posts about test driven development that, if you are looking for newbie advice on TDD, you should read. The first one talks about designing with TDD in mind, and the second discusses the advantages of high cohesion and loose c… more »

Doug over at The .NET Buffet has a post about an end to end application using the Enterprise Library. I still haven't had the time or the opportunity to dig into the EntLib, but this application may be a chance I get to dig in. I missed this a while bac… more »

Over the past year, I have posted a few tidbits from the project I am currently working on, including a teaser before I went on vacation that I would reveal what it was soon. Well, that time has come! I have been working with National City Mortgage on N… more »

As we near the final days of testing, we're also getting ready for deployment to production. That means all those configuration settings need to be looked at, and adjusted to be production ready. One that I always see is to change the compilation ta… more »

Tim Haines says you shouldn't develop in the web root. And he gives some advice to get around some of the gotchas with doing it. I agree with Tim. But here's how I set things up. My main development happens in a virtual folder on port 80, as does most o… more »

The project I have been working on for the past year is about to launch next on Wednesday. We are in the final testing phases, fixing small issues as we go. All is on track, and going smoothly. Until I looked at the site in Firefox. It was horrible! I g… more »

It looks like Dave Burke has taken the plunge, and is moving to Community Server. That's great news! He can pave the way, post about it, and I can follow along. We're planning to migrate our Tourney Logic blogs to CS:Blogs soon, and I'm currently in the… more »

Of the 500+ subscriptions I have, there are a few blogs that I check to see if there's a new post. Dave Burke's is one of those. And this week, one I was hoping for did. Over the weekend, Dave did a presentation at Code Camp 3 about customizing dot… more »

I recently got an email from someone asking why an ASP.NET application wouldn't work for him. I asked for some more details, and here's what I got: It's a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition server with plenty of RAM and a pretty fast CPU. It's running as a… more »

Scott Hanselman has a very nice tip about turning off Autocomplete for textboxes in IE and Firefox. I've been looking for this for a while now, and have been unable to find it. This will be useful. I'm working on a site that takes credit cards and s… more »