Mandelbrot Screensaver v3

1 Jun 2008 mandelbrot

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

1 Jun 2008 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

6 Jun 2008 random

I was listening today to a recent Hanselminutes podcast, where Scott Hanselman and Carl Franklin were discussing the Joy of Development.


Use Cases and User Stories

6 Jun 2008

While listening to ARCast recently, I heard the following:


Continuous Integration with TeamCity

11 Jun 2008 random

I’ve been spending some time recently setting up TeamCity, the Continuous Integration server from JetBrains.


Attitudes to Change

16 Jun 2008 professional

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

23 Jun 2008 tools

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

28 Jun 2008 stylecopcmd

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

30 Jun 2008 stylecopcmd

Over the weekend I spent more time with StyleCop, bringing a representative sample of code in line with its recommendations.



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