Programming

Auf dem .NET Open Space Süd hatte ich die Gelegenheit mit Stefan Lieser über die Initiative Clean Code Developer zu reden. Auch die Frage auf die farbigen Armbänder wird in diesem Video geklärt. Viel Spaß beim reinschauen, Dariusz

Here's another installment from MSR Cambridge (much more to come). This time, I was lucky enough to get some time with Byron Cook, a researcher in MSR's Programming Principles and Tools group focusing on static analysis of system code to hunt for algorithms and code fragments that…

Over the last 18 months Ben Hogan worked as an iteration manager at REA Group where he lead REA's program to implement continuous delivery of testing and production environments both in the cloud and in our production data centers.  Ben works as a consultant, coach and trainer with many…

This video goes along with my blog post, http://www.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharpPastPresentFuture.aspx (which will be posted shortly). The video accompanying the post demonstrates how Script# can be used to author ASP.NET AJAX-based script components. Specifically, the video…

I recently attended Lang.NET 2008 and, as expected, learned a great deal from some of the industry's finest language and compiler minds.Here, we meet Dan Ingalls and Allen Wirfs-Brock, two legendary Smalltalkers (contributors to the language). Dan Ingalls is well known for his work at Xerox PARC and…

Auf dem .NET Open Space Süd hatte ich die Gelegenheit mit Jan Welker über das Projekt dotnet-kicks.de zu sprechen. Jan erzählt was letztendlich mit dieser Seite gemacht werden kann und wie es dazu kam das er zusammen mit Gordon und Klaus diese Seite aufgebaut…

Visual Studio has lots of features that increase developer productivity; one of them is the Code Snippets. Visual Studio comes with many code snippets that you can access by right clicking and selecting Insert Snippet, or typing the snippet's name. With this demo, we would like to show you how…

James Silva was one of the stars of GDC 2008, presenting his good work in a keynote where good things were announced by the XNA People... James created the winning entry in a recent XNA contest. His game is based on his experience as a dishwasher in a restaurant where he wasn't afforded…

At Lang.NET 2008, I caught up with two dynamic languages afficianados who have been working on a similar (and really hard)problem over the years: getting Ruby (a dynamic language) to run on a static virtual machine (JVM and CLR, respectived). Charles Nutter is a lead developer on the JRuby…

I recently got the chance to attend JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark. Besids learning a great amount about various approaches to solving hard problems that we all face as programmers (regardless of the stack we spend most of our time developing on), I got to meet so many interesting people  from…