I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

Sorry, I thought I had put this up. This is the solution file that contains the quick presentation and simple examples on some common and basic design patterns. This is quite the popular presentation, and I'll be doing it again April 2nd at the Oklahoma City Developers Group meeting. Download the...

NStatic is a tool I have followed for quite some time now, eagerly awaiting for it to become available for use. I spoke with Wesner Moise , the creator of NStatic, and he mentioned the date will be very soon. For those of you who don't know, NStatic is a static code analysis tool. NStatic is used to...

I couldn't be happier for my friend Patrick Smacchia - the creator of NDepend . Anybody who knows me knows that I am NDepend's biggest fan, other than Patrick himself, and really, really want to see the product hit mainstream use and make Patrick rich beyond his wildest dreams! There wasn't a day that...

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For those of you in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, North Texas, North Arkansas areas, the 1st annual Tulsa Code Camp will be Saturday, March 10th, 2007. The central theme is .Net 3.0/3.5. There are already several great speakers setup. I'm going to be presenting a one hour talk on design patterns and...

This always drives me nuts. I'm working on a brand spankin new project that has zero code, so a co-worker and I are working on how we want to address the MVP implementation. So lately I'm reading up on new ideas that people have come with since the last time I did a ground-up implementation regarding...

Yes, if you are in the Dallas area, I will be presenting to NDDUG tomorrow evening. Title: Designing Frameworks - The Do's and Do Not's Abstract: Designing frameworks can be very tricky. There are so many things to consider when designing an API that it takes several books covering several points of...

Yep, the guys at Developer Express have released version 2.1 of their popular tools CodeRush, Refactor Pro and of course DxCore . I'm especially excited about the Refactor Pro because of the new refactorings available, some of them specific for Asp.Net. Check it out here in the release information...

Ok, its time that you start making plans to attend TechFest 2006 , in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 14th. I will be presenting 2 sessions of my own: setting up a continuous integration server with CruiseControl.Net in the Extras track 1, and also creating strongly typed session wrappers in the...