Richard Hale Shaw has a nice article arguing against hungarian notation. Personally, I don't use it unless a client requirement forces me to. It's basically for the same reasons he says not to - the tools are good enough now that it's not needed. I can h… more »

Here's an open source project to provide FxCop rules that are targetted to verify unit tests for general unit testing guidelines. Interesting idea. more »

A List Apart has two articles about web design. The first is about use cases, to make sure you are building the right application. The second is about how to manage scope. So one shows how to build enough, and the other shows how not to build too much.… more »

Jeff, over on the asp.net blogs, asks how do you persist enumerations. So far, he has two comments. One does it by the numeric value, and one does it by the text value. We do it by numeric value, but I like the reason for doing it by text - Steve says h… 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 »

Mike Clark is posting a question at a time about his interview by Mike Gunderloy (of Coder to Developer fame). The first one is about continuous integration on large projects. Mike G. asks if there is a size limit on CI projects. Mike C. says no, and tur… more »

Scott Mitchell has a pretty good article that gives a nice intro to the Enterprise Library over on 4GuysFromRolla.com. I really need to start playing with this thing! more »

If you've developed any .NET application, you'll probably want to check out this page to see what might break when users use different frameworks, and to see if your software will run on a different framework. more »

This time it's stored procedures versus parameterized queries. Peter DeBetta and Frans Bouma go head to head over on TheServerSide.NET about the pros and cons of each. I'm still on the fence about this one. Lately, I've been falling to the side of pqs,… more »

There's an MSDN event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel tomorrow (Thursday, February 24th, 2005) from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. I would love to attend, but deadlines loom! It looks like a good talk. There's three sessions about Winforms, troubleshooting ASP.NET apps,… more »