Archive for 2008

Prior year: 2007
Next year: 2009

March

21 No longer the C# we knew
22 Lambda Events
29 Why Crystal Reports Sucks
30 The One True Way
30 Options and Preferences
30 Huffman User Interfaces
31 Niche Software - Relaunched

April

4 A Better Property Snippet
6 Open for Comments
7 Renaming WPF Windows
9 Conditional Compilation
10 The End of an Era
12 YAGNI is no excuse to be lazy
15 Git
16 User Settings Gotcha in Visual Studio
22 NAnt Naming
24 Copy Error Dialogs
25 Configuration Manager in Visual Studio Express
30 Spec#

May

4 The Gray Zone
7 Future Trends
9 My Vista Experience? It Rocks!
13 The end of Delphi?
14 The Curse of Remembered Pain
18 Studying on the Move
24 Comfortable Clothes
26 A Settings problem
27 Preaching the wrong message
30 A Settings Problem Solved

June

1 Working with WPF
1 Mandelbrot Screensaver v3
6 Use Cases and User Stories
6 Creative Passion
11 Continuous Integration with TeamCity
16 Attitudes to Change
23 Sequence Diagrams for Reflector
28 StyleCop for C# Coding Standards
30 More on StyleCop

July

1 Announcing StyleCop.cmd
5 Estimation Poker
9 Dual Monitor Visual Studio
13 Extension Methods and Null Pointers
14 Mandelbrot Screensaver v3.1
19 Software Development Meme
24 Intersect and Except
25 Living with StyleCop
27 StyleCop Cmd Updated
28 Inversion of Control
29 Unclear on the Concept

August

1 Why use StyleCop?
1 Stylecop Documentation and Supression
3 Single Instance Applications
4 Tool Proficiency
6 Conscious Development
11 The Best RSS Reader
12 Outcome Based Thinking
16 .NET 3.5 SP 1 problems ...
18 Mandelbrots on TV
21 NUnit Best Practices
26 Visual Studio Shortcuts for StyleCop
27 NAnt and WiX Versioning
28 Reflector

September

8 Databinding with Lists
12 WiX Techniques
12 Upgradable MSI installations with WiX
13 New Zealand TechEd 2008
23 Fail Loudly
25 Creative Discipline

October

5 On Thresholds
8 Foundations of Programming
11 Understanding the Office UI
24 Whatever happened to responsiveness?
25 The right knowledge for each problem ...
29 Contravariance and Covariance at last
30 WiX Techniques Updated
30 Linq Aggregates

November

10 Subversion Fun
11 Small Fonts
11 Being a Tidy Kiwi
18 A Server out of Space
19 Scheduling Downtime
23 Finding Configuration Files
24 Giving your Application a voice

December

11 Nova's Fractals
17 Financial Functions for .NET
18 On Leadership Styles
18 Announcing NAntGraph
21 A Nice Round Number
30 Tracking Warnings with TeamCity