Category: General Development
Project Workflow humor
To continue the humor of my Bug Fix Bingo post, here’s another illustration to show you how (software) project workflows currently work these days… =0)
Bug Fix Bingo
Just in case your (or company’s) software development life cycle needs fixing… =0)
An extensive examination of data structures in .NET
Check out this great article by Scott Mitchell regarding data structures in .NET 2.0. It’s a six-part series that pretty much covers all that you’ll need to know. It goes like this: Part 1: An Introduction to Data StructuresPart 2: The Queue, Stack, and HashtablePart 3: Binary Trees and BSTsPart 4: Building a Better Binary Search TreePart…
Ten must-have tools every developer should download
Here’s an excellent article by James Avery discussing the must-have tools every developer should have in their toolbox arsenal. Just to summarize: NUnit to write unit tests NDoc to create code documentation NAnt to build your solutions CodeSmith to generate code FxCop to police your code Snippet Compiler to compile small bits of code Two…
Top 10 Development Mistakes
I found this list in the Redmond Developer News newsletter, and believe it’s worth mentioning/posting here…because as we all know, there are far too many software development projects that end in abject failure (whether a simple internal app or a massive commercial system). Here are the top 10 that made the list: 1. Never committing…
Ajax applications with PHP
It’s about time that the open source community take on Ajax. Check out xajax. Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web…