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Welcoming the Coming Death of WebForms

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/

Are programmers afraid of losing control over their code?

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,

The Programmer's Plague: Fighting the Spread of Arrogance

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

Doing it Right vs Getting it Done

> 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

Are users trying to make developers angry?

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

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