Just some random photos to unload from the camera. We recently saw this little guy scouring our Mums for prey: Spent the weekend in Tennessee. Stopped by a BBQ/country music festival in Nashville. Got myself some Bayou Billy’s homebrew soda....
In the previous entry, we explored how to clean up our interaction with instances of SPSite, SPWeb, and SPList objects. Logically, the next scenario that we’d want to cover is working with the SPListItem that we get back from the...
One thing that I’ve discovered is that it’s easy to write sloppy, hard to read code when SharePoint is involved. A lot of it may be due to the quick-and-dirty code samples out on the ‘Net and a general lack...
Nathan Alderman has an interesting write up on the effect of a public option on the healthcare industry: A decade ago, the major record labels were fat and happy, making piles of cash off CD sales. They could use their...
Being a consultant means traveling from time to time (or all the time). Since May, I’ve been traveling to Boston on a weekly basis and I’ve had a variety of cars. Oddly enough, my favorite car has been a Hyundai;...
A random assortment of random thoughts (and rants!) from the trenches… You Know You’re In Trouble When… You have to convene three people to figure out how to create an instance of one of the core objects in your framework. ...
This one made me chuckle:
Ever work on a small project (say 5-8 developers, a few hundred thousand lines of code) and get the feeling that the codebase is unreasonably large and difficult to navigate or use/reuse? Ever notice that other people keep duplicating logic...
As I’ve been working on my current project, I’ve found that many freshman developers who want to get better often have a hard time navigating the huge amount of resources out there to improve their skills. It’s hard to commit...
Ah yes, automatic properties. Insn’t it great that you don’t have to do all of that extra typing now? (Well, you wouldn’t be doing it anyways with ReSharper, but that’s besides the point.) For some reason, they’ve never sat well...