James Kovacs

Becoming a Jedi - Part 2 of N

The next episode of Becoming a Jedi is now live and covers code cleanup. Specifically I look at quick fixes, context actions, safe delete, and reformat code. You can find it here:

Streaming: Becoming a Jedi - Part 2: Code Cleanup (requires Silverlight 1.0 or higher)*

Download: Becoming a Jedi - Part 2: Code Cleanup (via Live SkyDrive)

Enjoy!

Published Jun 04 2008, 04:08 PM by james.kovacs

Filed under: Screencast

Comments

Duncan said:

I am a recent subscriber. I would very much appreciate a link back to part I.

# June 4, 2008 9:13 PM

james.kovacs said:

@Duncan - Welcome and thanks for subscribing. You can find Part 1 here:

codebetter.com/.../becoming-a-jedi-part-1-of-n.aspx

# June 4, 2008 9:42 PM

Matt said:

My god James, lay off the coffee before you record the next episode... ;)

# June 5, 2008 6:40 AM

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# June 5, 2008 9:44 AM

james.kovacs said:

@Matt - Too fast? I was trying to speed things up to optimize people's time.

@Everyone - Honestly, do people prefer the pace of the first or second episode? I'm happy to take it slower like the first one if more people prefer that. Consider this an unofficial poll. Leave your vote here. :)

# June 5, 2008 12:38 PM

Jean said:

Hi James, i like your Jedi episodes. It's short and clear so very good.

Thank you.

# June 7, 2008 7:11 AM

Andrei Butnaru's blog said:

Productivity tools, Resharper

# July 21, 2008 3:52 PM

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About james.kovacs

James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. His article, “Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code”, appeared in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.