Test yourself: 25 most dangerous security programming errors
The SANS institute has published a list of the top 25 most dangerous programming errors. Not only is this a…
System Reliability requires Message Durability (immature WCF)
WCF is a very cool technology. Microsoft has moved the goalposts in the messaging space with this one, and I’m…
Hero or Rebel
If you do what is needed, but not what you are told, are you a hero, or a rebel? In…
What about a Software Development Guild?
I work for Microsoft. However, I wonder if the answer to deciding if a developer is ‘qualified’ wouldn’t be better…
Build TDD adoption through Support-First efforts
I am convinced that Test-Driven Development is the single greatest hope that our industry has, as a whole, for improving…
Declaring architecture in the code
Code sits below the architecture. It is not an expression of architecture. Code realizes architecture, but is constrained by it. …
Should our next generation of languages require us to declare the applications' architecture?
As languages ‘improve’ over time, we see a first principle emerge: Move responsibility for many of the ‘good practices’ into the…
Killing the Helper class, part two
Earlier this week, I blogged on the evils of helper classes. I got a few very thoughful responses, and I…
Coding Dojo suggestion: the decorator kata
I ran across a posting by Robert Martin on the Coding Dojo and I admit to being intrigued. I’m running…
Interesting problem in VS 2003 and how to fix it
A team member and I found an interesting problem yesterday that I thought I’d share. We found the problem by…