Vol. 4 Iss: 9 Read back Issues

A Short History of Basic on Mono The highlight of this release is the new MonoBASIC compiler and runtime. The availability of BASIC on Mono has waxed and waned over the years. During the early days of Mono, BASIC received little or no attention. The biggest reaso... Nov. 9, 2006  Reads: 7,792

Effective Database Change Management Have you ever been on a project where software development worked beautifully but developing and maintaining the database always caused unexpected problems and bugs? Do your changes constantly get overwritten by other developers, ... Nov. 8, 2006  Reads: 10,119

DNDJ Feature — Clean and Protect a Large .NET Code Base with Coding Standards and Unit Testing Developer testing done early in the software's lifecycle is known to have a high positive impact on application quality, since this is the phase where finding and fixing bugs is cheapest, easiest, and fastest. Ideally, coding stan... Nov. 7, 2006  Reads: 9,147

Exploring FTP in .NET 2.0 Fall the network protocols missing from .NET 1.0 and 1.1, the most notable is the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Manually implementing the protocol for software developers was an unreasonable expectation, especially considering the... Nov. 6, 2006  Reads: 12,036

DNDJ Feature — Introducing C# Generics How often have you wanted to reuse some code you previously wrote but it didn't quite fit in your current project? Code reuse is an oft-touted benefit of modern object-oriented programming. With the advent of generic support in th... Nov. 5, 2006  Reads: 11,641

The Five Cs of Agile Management: Courage, Context, Course, Cadence, and Cost Anyone who has ever been responsible for leading or managing a software development project knows that software isn't easy. Successfully coordinating and dealing with project sponsors, customers, unexpected risks, and changing scope... Nov. 12, 2006  Reads: 6,264

Heard on Hanselminutes Hanselminutes is a weekly 30-minute podcast with Web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. The following is a transcript from show number 29, entitled 'Dynamic vs. Compiled Languages'. You can lis... Nov. 3, 2006  Reads: 9,455

A Second Glance at SharePoint 2007 Features I have been guilty of underestimating the power of Features. It wasn't really until I started digging deep into the bowels of the new Features and Solutions system in SharePoint 2007 that I finally started to realize how pervasive ... Nov. 2, 2006  Reads: 10,623

A First Look at Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets Every now and then a new development tool comes along that is so simple and elegant it leaves us wondering, why didn't we get this sooner? Introducing Intellisense Code Snippets, it's a new feature available in Visual Studio (VS) 20... Nov. 17, 2006  Reads: 13,514