Tweaking Cyclomatic Complexity Calculations
I’ve been looking at a number of different tools and techniques that I can implement at work to help us figure out where this pile of code that our team has inherited is in the most trouble. One
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.NET training in Edmonton
When you live out here in the hinterland, good software development training is hard to come by. When it does roll around it’s usually not for the technology or tools that you’re using. Ti
Unique values for surrogate keys
Don’t you hate those days when you think you’ve seen and heard it all only to find out that there is one more thing that is going to make you want to poke your eyes out? Well, today I went past
Testers advocating for the User without crying 'Wolf!'
I had an interesting conversation with some friends last night and it got me thinking more about the roles that testers play in the software development process. Thankfully I’ve worked with a nu
Customizing Visual Studio 2005 SmartTag key strokes
One of the great additions in Visual Studio 2005 are SmartTags. These are the little drop down menus that appear in the IDE when you’re writing code. The one I use the most is ‘Add Using’
Practicing
Athletes do it. Musicians do it. Artists do it. How may developers do it? The skills that we use everyday don’t just magically appear. Lots of developers learn and hone t
The druthers of work
I haven’t been posting a whole lot lately and I figured I should write out the reasons why. Not so much because I think you guys give two shits (you might, who knows), but more because I wa
Portable Apps
The place I’m working right now doesn’t allow me to install software, no matter what it is, onto my development desktop. I can understand their concerns with licensing, viruses and the such, but
TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTMs
I just noticed that Jamie Cansdale has released v2.0 of TestDriven.NET. The screenshot are of the new functionality are looking pretty damn cool. I’m downloading as we speak.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements
Today I found this new set of addins for VS 2k5 thanks to a post by Greg Duncan. According to the official Microsoft download page, these “…are a set of Visual Studio extensions provides tools t