Introduction I was a bit worried when I first saw this book title – using visual studio version seems a bit over specified for my taste, reading the sub title made me even queasier - It looked as if the book will become obsolete in just a few months when VS2010 will be released. Today … Continue reading Book Review: WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008
One of the benefits of programming in C#/VB.NET is amount of tools available - from Visual Studio to build servers to unit testing frameworks it seems that there is a tool for every job. I thought that my .NET tool belt has everything I need until recently, while learning Python (actually IronPython) I’ve discovered Python-Nose … Continue reading #Nose – the unit test discovery tool
If you’ve been reading my blog you may have noticed that I’m not above self advertisement and this post is no different. At Typemock we’ve started a series of webcasts called “this week in test”, as you might have guessed we post a new episode each week. This is the place where two guys talk … Continue reading This Week In Test Webcast
The first time I heard this question was a penal at the DotNetRocks podcast with a similar title. My first reaction was NO! if anything software development is becoming easier. I remember back in the old days of 2003 when I scored my first programming job (at Intel) I was part of a development team … Continue reading Is Software Development Too Complex?
I’ve been using R# v5 for a few weeks (ever since the nightly builds were made public) and I’m not going back. There is an exception now and then but it get caught by R# and reported back (if you want it to) without causing any problems with Visual Studio. There are some feature I … Continue reading Five reasons to install Resharper 5 today
In the last post I wrote about a simple method that can help .NET developers micro measure the memory consumption of their application, in this post I want to show a way to measure application performance. Before I start I want to state here and now that there is no substitute to using an actual … Continue reading Poor developer’s performance profiler
Some tools save you money. The rule of the thumb is that if you save X days using the tool and your salary is Y dollars (or whatever you get paid with) per day then the tool is worth X times Y - it’s that simple. Over the years I’ve used several tools to do … Continue reading Poor developer’s memory profiler
Have you ever taken a screwdriver to your TV just to find out how it works? Do you know how your computer looks form the inside? Ever pressed a button just to see what it does? Sounds familiar? probably because part of being a software developer (I assume you are a software developer) is finding … Continue reading Free book for the tinkering developer
During the weekend I got an invite to Google’s new (or rather newer) product – Wave and I’ve decided to find out what it’s all about. What is Google Wave for? Reading the answer from the about page: Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in … Continue reading Google Wave – first impression
It’s that time in the month when I shed a light on cool tools releases that every (.NET) developer should know about. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 The new Visual Studio is one step closer to it’s release. Today MSDN subscribers (yours truly among them) can download the latest release of the upcoming 2010 version … Continue reading Software News – October 2009
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