October 2007 - Posts
Last weekend, while at the Twin Cities Code Camp, over a few drinks some fellow consultants and I were able to share some "war stories" from our consulting pasts. Boy, and I thought I might have ever had it bad. Some fellow Magenicons described
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Thank you. If it were not for alt.net, we would not be getting an MVC framework. Sometimes, my skeptic nature puts me, while not quite in the laggard crowd, certainly not in the early adopters with most things. I have a certain distaste for "purists".
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Presentation coming in a few minutes - sitting here in the room with Bill , Chris , D'Arcy , getting ready to do the Indexed LINQ talk again :) They are liveblogging too, figured I would jump in :)
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Well - if you are, perhaps you should read my colleague Matt Lockhart's article that covers some of the risks, some obvious, some less so, that outsourcing inherently exposes you to. After having visited India myself in a professional capacity, I
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In the .net framework, every single class you ever write will violate Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). Why? Every object in .net has a method called GetHashCode. And... horrors of horrors, every object has a method called ToString. You can, and
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It's official as of today. Read about it at the Magenic web site , or on Yahoo News . My role in this endeavor is to, among other things, drive this partnership, spreading the word about the 30-day blitz to as many people that will listen. In the
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Humbled I am - thank you Microsoft for recognizing me with an MVP award . When I started at Magenic, I thought... someday... maybe... who the heck knows? It is a real honor to actually receive it. I have to thank all the guys at Magenic, Rocky Lhotka,
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