Mandelbrot Screensaver v3
After four years and a complete rewrite in the latest technology, I’m delighted to announce the release of the latest edition of my Mandelbrot screensaver.
Working with WPF
Recently, on one of the mailing lists I read, someone wrote “With WPF, I see development and training time being bumped up (at least) a notch or two for no reason other than having a flasher UI.” I thought it worth sharing my response …
Creative Passion
I was listening today to a recent Hanselminutes podcast, where Scott Hanselman and Carl Franklin were discussing the Joy of Development.
Continuous Integration with TeamCity
I’ve been spending some time recently setting up TeamCity, the Continuous Integration server from JetBrains.
Attitudes to Change
I was reading today about the so-called ‘awesome bar’ included in the upcoming release of Firefox 3 and was struck by the observation that many commentators seem to be simply complaining about change.
Sequence Diagrams for Reflector
Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector has to be one of the most useful tools in my bag of tricks - the ability to spelunk into the depths of an assembly to answer a tricky question has value beyond words.
StyleCop for C# Coding Standards
StyleCop, newly released by Microsoft, is a tool for C# developers. In some ways similar to stable-mate, fxCop, StyleCop analyses your C# source code for compliance against a set of rules that embody Microsoft’s own style conventions for C# code.
More on StyleCop
Over the weekend I spent more time with StyleCop, bringing a representative sample of code in line with its recommendations.
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