This is part of the lyric for the music in the Progressive.Com commercials. Having gotten married a while back, we’ve put off combining car insurance for a while. However, the time has now come. Li...

One of my colleagues, Alex Mueller, recently completed a set of presentations to our organization which talked about the tenets of object oriented programming. Most of the people in the room were f...

For quite some time I’ve been looking for a way to get a nice exception dialog worked into several applications that I’ve developed. I saw that the .NET framework had a real nice one that did not b...

Why is it that it seems to be so difficult (if not impossible) to utilize the ISerializable interface when using web services? I have a number of objects that I do not wish to provide default cons...

Recently, I’ve gotten very interested in FitNesse and how it can be used to enhance the quality of both legacy and new applications. I purchased and have been reading the Fit bible (Fit for Develop...

Tom McMahon has an absolutely epic post entitled ‘What I have learned in 15 years’. Tom shares what he has learned about life with a disabled son. This type of post epitomizes what blogging is all ...

There… I said it! I’ve been more and more exposed to Java and I really have to say I love the constraints that Java puts on you as far as organizing code. Your packages need to follow your folder ...

Why, oh why, arent the System.Xml classes easier to work with? Why is everything tied to the XmlDocument? I’d love to be able to do something like this: public XmlElement ToXml(MyClass obj) { ...

We’ve recently taken to FitNesse to drive our acceptance tests. One of the frustrations we had with it was getting it to run as a service. I found a neat article on the fitnesse site that describe...

One of the funnier things Ive seen in a long time came through my email box today. It was a picture of what is likely the best ever sign inside of a store. Click on the thumbnail for a full size i...