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| The Latest from Ardent Dev | MORE | | When is software done? Computer science courses even encourage that behaviour with a constant barrage of coding assignments that are immediately discarded. Are you done yet? Such a simple question… Earlier in my career I worked on a project that went into production with what I would consider a less than optimal set of internal admin tools. We deployed it and handed it over to the client’s internal team where it stayed live but untouched. After a year in prod, I got an email from the client asking how to cancel a subscription. The building of software is a funny thing. The code is written. Ardent Dev - Sunday, February 13, 2011 The Dirty Secret of Computer Science There’s some, of course, but not enough that I would call myself a computer scientist. The term "computer science" is a laughable misnomer. Outside of universities and operating system development, there isn’t a lot of computer science involved in the daily grind of computer programming. Not by a long shot. I’ve long thought that Donald Knuth had it right when he titled his books The Art of Computer Programming. Creating software bears some resemblance to art as in the work of an artist. It bears an even stronger resemblance to art as in the work of an artisan. Ardent Dev - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Your Moral Obligation to Future Coder It is, of course, quite possible that the programmer before you was a complete idiot. Think back to some nontrivial piece of code you wrote. Now mentally crumple it up into a ball, douse it with gasoline, and light that sucker on fire. That is what some future coder is going to want to do to your code. Take a moment to let it sink in that Future Coder might very well be Future You.). OK, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Future Coder can’t hurt you unless your code is still in use after someone invents time travel. Code has a past and a future. Ardent Dev - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | | The Best from Ardent Dev | MORE | | Things To Do At TechDays Halifax 2009 Of course the SurfDonkey boys are clearly nuts: [link]. If you’re heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia for the only sold out TechDays show in Canada (November 2-3, 2009), you might be wondering what to do when you’re not at the conference. Here are some suggestions: Rogue’s Roost Brew Pub. This is my favourite place to eat in downtown Halifax. The floors are sticky, the service isn’t great, but the chicken fingers and ale are wonderful. Make sure you get the honey dill dipping sauce with your fingers. Surfing. OK, you’d have to be nuts to go surfing in Nova Scotia in November. Good luck. Ardent Dev - Friday, October 30, 2009 The Dirty Secret of Computer Science There’s some, of course, but not enough that I would call myself a computer scientist. The term "computer science" is a laughable misnomer. Outside of universities and operating system development, there isn’t a lot of computer science involved in the daily grind of computer programming. Not by a long shot. I’ve long thought that Donald Knuth had it right when he titled his books The Art of Computer Programming. Creating software bears some resemblance to art as in the work of an artist. It bears an even stronger resemblance to art as in the work of an artisan. Ardent Dev - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 How Does a Programmer Change a Car Tire? By the light of his laptop screen of course: Nice! While my buddy Jason Row was traveling home from the awesomeness that was TechDays Halifax 2009, Mother Nature invoked the Deflate() method on his tire. How does a software developer change a car tire in the dark? BTW, Jason is currently job hunting if you know someone looking to tap into that creative thinking. You can find Jason on LinkedIn or contact him via his blog.). Ardent Dev - Thursday, November 5, 2009 | - Computer Science vs. The Real World
As usual, Joel Spolsky hits the nail square on the head in his Oct 26, 2009 piece on the discrepancy between what Computer Science programs teach and what software developers need to know in the real world: It is amazing how easy it is to sail through a Computer Science degree from a top university without ever learning the basic tools of software developers, without ever working on a team, and without ever taking a course for which you don’t get an automatic F for collaborating. Where do they learn to write a program longer than 20 lines? link]. Ardent Dev - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - When is software done?
Computer science courses even encourage that behaviour with a constant barrage of coding assignments that are immediately discarded. Are you done yet? Such a simple question… Earlier in my career I worked on a project that went into production with what I would consider a less than optimal set of internal admin tools. We deployed it and handed it over to the client’s internal team where it stayed live but untouched. After a year in prod, I got an email from the client asking how to cancel a subscription. The building of software is a funny thing. The code is written. Ardent Dev - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - Your Moral Obligation to Future Coder
It is, of course, quite possible that the programmer before you was a complete idiot. Think back to some nontrivial piece of code you wrote. Now mentally crumple it up into a ball, douse it with gasoline, and light that sucker on fire. That is what some future coder is going to want to do to your code. Take a moment to let it sink in that Future Coder might very well be Future You.). OK, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Future Coder can’t hurt you unless your code is still in use after someone invents time travel. Code has a past and a future. Ardent Dev - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - The Loathsome Ritual of Predictions for 2009
And so it goes for another year… Of course I do have a few genuine predictions for 2009: PDC 2009 will be about mobile and other portable devices. Oh how I love and loathe the yearly cycle of predictions… Hard drives will get bigger! Processors will get faster and gain more cores! Web pages will get heavier! Billy Hollis will reiterate his doctrine of smart client superiority! Vertigo Software will release some new app that will make everyone feel inadequate! Richard Campbell will say something that reminds me of how dinky my podcast is compared to.NET Rocks! Ardent Dev - Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - The Loathsome Ritual of Predictions for 2009
And so it goes for another year… Of course I do have a few genuine predictions for 2009: PDC 2009 will be about mobile and other portable devices. Oh how I love and loathe the yearly cycle of predictions… Hard drives will get bigger! Processors will get faster and gain more cores! Web pages will get heavier! Billy Hollis will reiterate his doctrine of smart client superiority! Vertigo Software will release some new app that will make everyone feel inadequate! Richard Campbell will say something that reminds me of how dinky my podcast is compared to.NET Rocks! Ardent Dev - Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - The Loathsome Ritual of Predictions for 2009
And so it goes for another year… Of course I do have a few genuine predictions for 2009: PDC 2009 will be about mobile and other portable devices. Oh how I love and loathe the yearly cycle of predictions… Hard drives will get bigger! Processors will get faster and gain more cores! Web pages will get heavier! Billy Hollis will reiterate his doctrine of smart client superiority! Vertigo Software will release some new app that will make everyone feel inadequate! Richard Campbell will say something that reminds me of how dinky my podcast is compared to.NET Rocks! Ardent Dev - Wednesday, January 7, 2009 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | The real lessons of Lego (for software) We start with the standard Lego brick: Of course there are multiple colours: And a few variations: Which now allows us to snap together a useful wall: Walls are good but to build anything more interesting we need some more pieces, maybe some flat pieces: Or some thinner pieces, or some bigger pieces: It might also help to have some angled pieces, you know for roofs and things, and remember the slant can go either way, up or down: I think we’re heading for a house so we will need some doors and windows: Personally I like wheels, I like things to move, and so do my kids. Heard that? Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, June 3, 2013 Llewellyn Falco (Approval Tests): What I've learned about open source by pairing with Simon Cropp Of course, ApprovalTest depends on ApprovalUtilities, but you can now use the Utilities on it''s own, as originally intended. 'Over the last 2 weeks I have be fortunate enough to pair with Simon Cropp for about 8 hours on my open source project ApprovalTests. Simon has taught me a lot about running a better open source project, this blog is an attempt to share some of that for those not fortunate enough to be able to pair with Simon themselves. Think about your ''brand'' Often I am writing ApprovalTests because I use ApprovalTests myself. There isn''t. dll binary *.exe exe binary *.png DevelopMentor Courses - Saturday, May 25, 2013 Unit testing code depending on the ASP.NET WebApi HttpClient Of course we still need tests for updating existing resources as well as deleting them but with these examples those should be easy enough :-). 'In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. But with a REST service there is both a client and a service component. Assuming for a moment the client part is also written in C# we should test that as well. In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient. 7: _httpClient = httpClient; 8: BaseUrl = new Uri( "[link] ); 9: }. Maurice de Bejeir - Monday, May 20, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Take the first hour of any online developer course for free at LearningLine
We are announcing the ability to preview any of our online courses, for free without entering any payment information. You can now study approximately the first hour of any one of our courses. To get started, just head over to our schedule page , click on any course title you’d like and choose “ Preview course for free “: . At the time of this writing, there are 27 courses which run between 4 and 15 days in length. So head on over to the schedule page and find a course that is right for you: https://learninglineapp.com/schedule. - Why Choose NoSQL and Document Databases over RDBMS
This is an excerpt from my upcoming online MongoDB course for DevelopMentor. Filed under: NoSQL Tagged: DevelopMentor , LearningLine , NoSQL , Online courses , Online learning , Screencasts. NoSQL DevelopMentor LearningLine Online courses Online learning Screencasts 'Do you want to know the biggest single reason you should choose document databases over SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL? Hint: It’s not performance or scalability. You can take the first 1 1/2 hours for free here: Early access: MongoDB and NoSQL for.NET developers. Cheers, @mkennedy. - ELINQ with EF 4.0 Course Update
I’ve been working feverishly the last couple of months to update my DevelopMentor course: Essential LINQ with Entity Framework 4.0. Here is a breakdown of the course content: Day 1: 1. Here’s when and where we’re offering the course: Boston: February 9-12, 2010 London: February 23-26, 2010 Los Angeles: March 30-April 2, 2010 Boston: April 20-23, 2010 London: May 4-7, 2010 Los Angeles: June 8-11, 2010 Boston: June 29-July 2, 2010. Functional Programming in C# 2. LINQ to Objects 3. LINQ to XML. Day 2: 4. LINQ to SQL 5. EF: Architecture 6. EF: LINQ to Entities. Day 3: 7. Tony and Zuzana's World - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - Richard Blewett: Devweek 2013–WCF Crash Course
Thanks to everyone who attended my Devweek 2013 pre-conference session on WCF. You can get the slides and demos here DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - Flowcharts in Workflow 4 and the Switch activity
Of course the FlowSwitch should just to a ToString() on the expression result , anything else would be pointless as any comparison fails. Flowcharts are a nice addition to Windows Workflow Foundation 4. They allow for a lot of pretty complex behavior that is hard to do in a sequential workflow. In WF 3 we used to model these complex behaviors as state machine workflows. That worked but they weren't really state machines or event driven and things could get a bit tricky. No it is just another activity to drop in a workflow. guess you get the picture. So far so good. Next (5). Enjoy! The Problem Solver - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 %>
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