Why are so many technical decisions made by non-technical people? Because technical people don’t have the patience to read through the information coming out of the vendors
Vendors should provide a technical-people-only portal of their websites, similar in principal to the Simple Wikipedia site. A site which would cut through all of the Enterprise-induced […]
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Microsoft recently released a new tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, AKA StyleCop. Richard Banks has a great overview of the tool and how to use it. To summarize, it looks at your C# source code (unlike FxCop, which looks at compiled binaries) and evaluates a set of rules over the code to help […]
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There’s a nice graphic that comes up every few months at Readify. It takes the major technology areas in the market, and breaks them into how much we care about each respective area. Like any company our resources are limited, so it’s a good way to remember what to concentrate our time on.
As individual […]
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About a week ago I installed Windows Server 2008 on my laptop. That’s right; not on a VM, but on bare metal
The installation was fairly seamless. I downloaded the ISO from MSDN, burnt it, rebooted, popped it in and installed it. I expected a lot of things not to work - especially since […]
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A couple of cool plugins have come out lately. The first is Joseph Cooney’s DB Object QuickFind for SQL Server Management Studio:
The second is Corneliu Tusnea’s TFS Quick Search plugin for Visual Studio:
Both very cool plugins, which leads me to a bit of a rant. Why weren’t these simple features included out-of-the-box?
Earlier this […]
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My name is Paul Stovell, and I am a software developer from Australia. I work for Readify, a .NET consulting company specialising in technical readiness. I am also a Microsoft MVP. In my spare time I work on Bindable LINQ, a set of open source extensions that enable data binding over LINQ queries.
