First, if you're a developer and you're not listening to HanselMinutes, you should be. Having said that, show #90 with Dan Appleman is applicable to anyone in the software industry - developer or not. It's about Software Architecture, but it's really… more »

I've seen quite a few posts about XML documentation guidelines, but this is by far the best I've seen thus far. It goes a step further than any I've seen - it specifically highlights what is supported by Visual Studio, NDoc, and Sandcastle, so you can ma… more »

After posting about my lack of growing lately, I was checking my "To Blog" folder in FeedDemon, and I already had a post flagged to blog about from J.D. Meier. He's got a bulleted list of things to do to ensure you have a mind-set to grow, rath… more »

ScottW has an interesting new theory for prototyping: if you cannot build an interesting working version of an application in less than 1000 lines of code, you are likely over complicating things. I think he's actually talking about more than p… more »

Dave Donaldson nails it again when he talks about checking in your changes as often as possible. I've seen people resist this because of a "that's not how I work" mentality, and when you work with Continuous Integration, that thought process do… more »

No matter what you think of Dave Winer, he is definitely an innovator and is constantly coming up with great ideas. His latest is a gem as well. Every web app that produces long urls should provide a built-in url-shortening facility. The user interf… more »

While I was at GLSEC last week, there was a booth set up from Addison Wesley, who publishes technical content. They were set up right outside the room I was presenting in, and sitting on the table was a book I hadn't seen yet: Continuous Integration: Imp… more »

One of the things I stressed when I gave my CI talk last week was how important it is that when you set up your build process, that you make it self contained and under source control. One of my reasons was so that you can quickly get a build server up a… more »

Anyone who's talked with me about software development will probably quickly realize that I am a big fan of design patterns. There's a a couple of reasons for that, mainly ease of communicating system design among developers and using proven techniques t… more »

I've recently written about how Tourney Logic has switched all of it's email over to Google Apps. Well, one side effect of that is that our applications had to be updated to send our email through the Google servers rather than the email servers we were… more »