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Agile.NET Conference comes to Dallas

Improving Enterprises and Microsoft are proud to sponsor the Second Annual Agile.NET Conference! Currently scheduled for Friday, April 30th at the Microsoft Office in Las Colinas, Agile.NET will host 4 separate tracks filled to the brim with great content to help you improve your company’s software...

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-08-2010
May 2009 Meeting

Our May 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday May 19h, 2009 6pm at Justin Brands. Please join us as our very own FWDNUG Treasurer, David Yancey, will be presenting: Test Driven Development Workshop Meeting Sponsor TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber...

Posted to Meetings (Weblog) by sswienton on 05-17-2009
Giving up on the community

I know nobody reads my blog anyway, but I still feel the need to comment (rant) to the blogosphere. The back story goes like this. Joel Spoelsky said some pretty irresponsible things in an interview, calling SOLID principles bureaucratic and saying "(code) quality doesn't matter." Jeff...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-14-2009
February 2009 Meeting

Our February 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 6:30pm at ThinkCash Financial. We are taking a slight departure from the norm this month and co-hosting our meeting with the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Agile software development has been a hot topic with our members...

Posted to Meetings (Weblog) by sswienton on 02-12-2009
Code Noise Part 2!

Last time we looked at what Code Noise was. This time we are going to look at good practices for eliminating code noise. Clean Naming: Clean names reveal intent. Clean names reveal intent. Clean names reveal intent. The point I’m trying to get across here is that good clean names reveal intent...

Posted to David.Yancey (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-04-2009
Found some good code today

I'm hoping this won't offend any of you out there, but most of us developers write crappy code. I'm not fully sure why this is, but even if the database isn't a steaming pile of horse poo, the code usually is. There's often a lot of code duplication, methods and property names that...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-21-2008
TDD + Resharper Payoff - Refactoring

So the project i mentioned the other day in my last post has had minimal need for refactoring. Part of that is because I'm such a super badass developer who always gets things right the first time (yeah right), and part of it is that the project is small enough and young enough that there isn't...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-11-2008
Dirty Code!!!

If 4 letter words immediately come to mind when you do a code review…then you might have dirty code. If you quince each time a new feature is requested to be added to your existing library of code…then you might have dirty code. If the amount of time it takes to research a bug is inversely...

Posted to David.Yancey (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-10-2008
Code Noise!!!

If 4 letter words immediately come to mind when you do a code review…then you might have dirty code. If you wince each time a new feature is requested to be added to your existing library of code…then you might have dirty code. If the amount of time it takes to research a bug is inversely...

Posted to David.Yancey (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-10-2008
My current architecture

For the six or seven of you in the world that actually read my blog, you've noticed that i've been pretty quiet lately. So while i'm chomping down breakfast before work, I thought I'd give you a rundown on what i've been doing lately. I'm working on a medium size project that...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-10-2008

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