My company, Healthwise, is going through a tremendous growth and we are looking at almost doubling our development staff. Part of my responsibilities for my new role as Software Engineering Manager...

I’ve been working on a project recently where I’ve decided to use Model View Presenter (MVP). The biggest benefit to implementing using MVP is that you end up decoupling your views from your presen...

I’ve been using Simian for quite a while to analyze code and help me find areas that could use refactoring. However, only recently have I introduced Simian into my continuous integration process h...

More and more, Im spending time in .NET 2.0 and more and more Im finding really cool things. The latest one I found was the BackgroundWorker component. This is probably old hat to most of you, but ...

Recently, Ive been working on a WinForms application, built on top of the .NET 2.0 framework. Ive been able to dabble with generics in the past, but only recently am starting to realize how powerfu...

I think that most developers by nature are very introverted people that would rather chew their arm off than speak in front of a group of people. I was absolutely one of those developers, however w...

Yesterday, I finished an absolutely fantastic book entitled Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and is the memoir of Aron Ralston. You may remember Aron as the very experienced outdoorsman that got tr...

I’ve long placed very high value on writing exceptionally clean code. The latest article (pdf) from Uncle Bob talks about the steps that it takes to take a “big ball of mud” and turning into someth...

It is not very often that I find myself hoping that someone loses in anything that they are competing in. I cant remember ever actually hoping that an athlete from the United States loses in the Ol...

I’ve been searching for this for quite some time, and have finally figured out how to make VS.NET 2005 launch Firefox as the browser when I click F5 to debug. Right click on an .ASPX file in your ...