Just about a month ago, Microsoft announced ASP.NET 5 [http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/aspnet-vnext/aspnet-5-overview], what's being characterized as a ground-up rewrite of this venerable framework. Improvement big and small abound; two of the ones I'm looking forward to the most are TagHelpers [http://www.hanselman.com/
In our organization, like a lot of others, we have three levels of programmers: developers, senior developers, and lead developers. I am one of the lead developers, and in that capacity I am responsible for divvying up tasks amongst my team of eight developers, conducting code reviews, implementing team standards,
There is a plague amongst our peers, silently infecting our coworkers and our friends. We cannot see it or feel it. We must strive to keep it at bay, for its infection is hard to notice and even harder to treat. It is constantly watching for signs of weakness, for
> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. > - The 90-90 Rule [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule], proposed by Tom Cargill There's a classic, constant pull
Have you ever felt like users are intentionally trying to piss you off? This feeling has happened to me more than once. It isn't a rare occurance for my team to get angry emails from our users saying something doesn't work, only for us to point out something simple that