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Desert Code Camp Wrap-up

We went, we saw, we sweated.  Desert Code Camp 3 finished up yesterday with another great turnout.  For Tom and I, it was a day of Agile goodness.  We talked on TDD, RhinoMocks and CCNe

Desert Code Camp -- Day 2

Well, it’s actually day 1, but it’s day two in Tempe (tem-PEE) for me.  Here’s the summary. C# 3.0 Beyond Linq:  This was my presentation.  Nothing special here.  Take a look at th

Desert Code Camp -- The Night Before

Tom and I made it into the Phoenix/Tempe (pronounced tem-PEE we’ve been told, not TEMP-eh?) yesterday.  First impressions:  Holy crap it’s hot!  We stepped out of the airport and i

Pre-Desert Code Camp gathering

Tom and I are on the move on Friday as we head down to Phoenix for the Desert Code Camp.  We’ll be arriving in town during the middle of the day on Friday and will definitely be looking for some

Refactoring goodness

Today I spent some time in our code at work (I know…shocking that I was writing code).  One of the things that I found was a group of three files that each contained anywhere from 3 to 20 public

Upcoming Events

My fall schedule is starting to book up and I’m looking to be quite busy.  If you’re interested in becoming a groupie of mine, you can find me at the following places in the next few months. Sep

Value delimited fields

I’m in the process of working on a migration strategy to get the Igloo off of the Community Server platform and onto Subtext.  My search of the internet provided few resources beyond BlogML to he

The Dependency Injection Fray

There’s a lot of discussion going on between Oren and Jacob (here, here and here) about the relative benefits, costs and overall usefulness of Dependency Injection.  Both have done a decent job a

Ferragosto

Until today I had no idea what Ferragosto was.  According to Wikipedia it is an Italian holiday where “Close to the entire month of August is taken as vacation and leisure time…” The project I’m

Refactoring Analysis with the Help of nDepend

About 8 months ago I ran my work application through nDepend to see what kind of disaster we really had on our hands.  The results provided a very deep insight into the current state of our