James has finally announced the release of his book Visual Studio Hacks.
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. This is going to be a long couple of months 
Congratulations James!
Archive for January, 2005
26
Jan
YAGNI
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general–and often we know it too quickly.
There are so many times that we would be better off if we thought about doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Chances are, YAGNI.
23
Jan
Day of .Net
I wanted to say thanks to everyone that was able to attend the Day of .Net event in Columbus. The event was a lot of fun and I had a blast presenting. The slides will be up on the site soon. For everyone that didn’t make it (the event sold out in 36 hours), we will likely be doing the same session and format within the next month to allow for everyone who wasn’t able to register to get a chance to attend.
Thanks to Drew and Dave for doing a great job of pulling this together and to Alex for helping with the promotion. Everyone had great sessions and it was refreshing to see more code than slides. The code will also be posted on the site if anyone is interested in downloading the content from the presentations.
04
Jan
.Net Event In Ohio
For anyone in the Ohio area, be sure to stop by at the .NET Development Best Practices/Tips-Tricks event on Friday January 21st. I’ll be giving a session on Test Driven Development and the lineup for the event looks great.
The event is free and open to the public. You can register at the Microsoft Events site.
The lineup is…
- Implement a Service Gateway with COM Interop and Web Services – Dave Donaldson, Arcware
- Building Web Services – Drew Robbins
- Test-Driven Development in .NET – Ben Carey, NuSoft Solutions
- Pimp Your IDE – James Avery, Infozerk
- Client-Side Scripting with ASP.NET – Steve Caravajal, MAX Technical Training
- What’s New in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, ADO.NET 2.0, and WinForms 2.0 – Alex Lowe, Microsoft
