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Does TDD Guarantee Quality? Probably not.
No. Period. Full stop. TDD guarantees quality about as much as religion guarantees morality. It is probably tempting to draw a cause effect relationship from one to the other, since current TDD practicioners tend to be very good software developers, but Read More...

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Can TDD Taken too far?
Uh oh - one of the uglier side effects of TDD (edit, link removed as the post was taken down) starting to rear it's ugly head. :edit: Since the aforementioed link was broken (unsure why...) - let me explain what used to be there. Basically, the idea Read More...

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My brief thoughts on alt.net
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". Read More...

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Single Responsibility Principle can be Taken Too Far
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 Read More...

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LINQ to SQL != Typed DataSet Replacement
A couple of questions I have received while giving talks, not to mention a question I see when lurking in, and occasionaly responding in, the Microsoft LINQ forum, is that LINQ to SQL is not feature complete when compared with Typed Data Sets. My response Read More...

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