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• Unnecessary Abstractions

  Jason Bock had a similar title to this post awhile back … and I found a forehead-slapper today when reviewing some code in a app I’m working on during my free time. I seriously said “What the <ExplativeGoesHere>”. Here’s the code:   There is... Posted Aug 27 2008, 12:29 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET

• The Twin Cities Give Camp

  I’ve presented at code camps and given presentations to technical audiences and institutes and I will continue to do so. I have a passion for giving back to the community that has helped me become the what I am today. I’ve decided that I want to give... Posted Aug 12 2008, 09:13 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Events

• DiscountASP vs. Me

  DiscountASP just won. Argh! I wrote a long blog post (because I dont have access to Live Writer on this PC) and then clicked Publish and it logged me out. Dont understand what I'm talking about? Read on .. Unfortunately, what DiscountASP.NET does... Posted Aug 08 2008, 07:25 AM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

• Is Premature Optimization Really Evil?

  Photo Courtesy of: rosendahl My first initial answer is … it depends. (Isn’t that the case for everything?) :) Today I had conversation with a colleague and we were discussing how application developers don’t plan ahead. This eventually brought up the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:41 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .NET, Design, Architecture

• Calgary ALT.NET Open Space – August 15-17

  So, are you going? If so, you better sign up quick! Space is going fast! What is an alt.net open space? First lets define what an open space actually is… How Open Spaces Works Whoever shows up is the right group. Whatever happens is the only thing that... Posted Jul 13 2008, 09:21 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .NET, ALT.NET, Conferences

• Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released

  Better late than never…. :) Our team coordinator, Bil Simser , announced this same thing on his blog a couple of weeks ago.  Tree Surgeon is a .NET Development Tree Generator. Basically, we added … Support for Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008 Ability... Posted Jul 13 2008, 09:10 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .NET

• Virtual Earth - End of Life

  This week Microsoft announced that their Virtual Earth product versions 3, 4 & 5 will be retired. As part of our planned deprecation schedule for older versions of Virtual Earth, we will be permanently retiring Virtual Earth version 3, version 4,... Posted Jul 02 2008, 06:56 AM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET

• I Took The ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Exam, and then the red pill

  At Tech-Ed last week they offered the ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Exam . The beta exam is not available in Phoenix , so I decided to give it a whirl on Thursday. I didn't plan to take the test so I didn't have a lot of time to review (maybe 30 minutes of... Posted Jun 09 2008, 03:26 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Exams

• Intro to Microsoft Unity - Dependency Injection Container

  Note: A full solution is supplied at the bottom of this post if you would like to download it and run it. A couple of days ago Matt wrote about the new Unity Application Block . The Unity MSDN article describes Unity as: The Unity Application Block... Posted May 25 2008, 09:40 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: TDD, Agile, .NET, Dependency Injection

• TIP: Utilizing Fluent Syntax with the "Is" Keyword in Rhino Mocks and NUnit

  Rhino Mocks and NUnit both have a "Is" keyword, both used for a fluent style of syntax. Unfortunately this causes testing problems when you need to use them together. The .NET compiler can only understand one "Is" keyword at a time... Posted May 23 2008, 12:13 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: TDD, .NET

• 3.5 Beta Exams Not Available In Phoenix

  I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago but unfortunately I didn't get the chance to. Anyway... I was a little bummed out to find that the ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Exams were being offered to MCP holders until late April (I believe it was up until yesterday... Posted Apr 29 2008, 01:09 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Exams

• Simple Download Counter HttpHandler

  [Full code sample provided at the bottom of this post] I use A-Drive from time to time to host small files that I want users to download for various personal projects (mainly to help conceptualize the market for entrepreneur start-up ideas). Lately I... Posted Apr 29 2008, 11:07 AM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

• Implicitly Typed Locals - R# V4

  Recently Ilya Ryzhenkov posted a thread on the ReSharper blog . The article was about how R# 4.0 gives you a suggestion to use implicitly typed locals. I've been running R# 4.0 nightly builds for a few weeks now and I've noticed these little buggers... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:28 AM by donnfelker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Productivity, .NET

• TIP: Getting the Base Directory of where your App is running

  This is an oldie but a goodie. It was brought up that not one developer at my current client knew about this object in the framework. So, how do you find where the app is running at? Easy: Use the AppDomain object. This works for both Web and Non-Web... Posted Mar 11 2008, 04:18 PM by donnfelker with | with no comments Filed under: .NET