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Shooting yourself in the leg with a bazooka
The colorful title reflects that this posting is about common mistakes done by good but relatively inexperienced software developers. Big mistakes that a developer actually need quite some skills to...
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VM-ware Fusion and remote desktop fun
While I’ve been using apple computers for years now, I’m new to virtualization. Because we develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, we decided to work with apple MacBooks. This is really nice...
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Don’t rename the title field in sharepoint lists and doing caml lookup by id
I guess alot of you that if you rename the Title field in a SharePoint list, the internal name is still “Title” (only the viewable name is actually changed). I had such a scenario where another...
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Asp.net MVC framework
And so it happened… Microsoft acknowledged that not all developers like the whole event driven/viewstate model. Other web frameworks like the MVC model has been used for years on other platforms,...
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Ruby on Rails’ footprint on Microsoft
This post could also be called how David (DHH) inspired Goliath (MS). Lately Microsoft has release a number of products and new technologies on the .NET platform. Of course this could just be seen as...
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C# 4.0 specs mentions Ruby in line 4
We are currently seeing Microsoft being more and more aware of Ruby and Ruby on Rails world. They’ve launched there own MVC framework and they are working on IronRuby. Now a whitepaper on the future...
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Breaking encapsulation with C# 2.0 partial classes (moved posting)
For good or bad partial classes in C# 2.0 allows breaking of encapsulation as this example will show. In a consulting job I recently ran into an interesting case involving a webservice with several...
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My take on a software development success philosophy
Below I have compiled a list of 6 personal (overall) viewpoints about software development philosophy that I find particularly important when successfully running software projects. Some of them might...
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