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This isn't so much a review as just a note that I read Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann and found it pretty helpful in clea...

One day, at the end of my team's daily stand-up meeting, one person said he was cleaning out his garage. He'd found a couple of book...

[This is Part 2 of a review of Steve McConnell's book Professional Software Development . Read Part 1 here .] In proposing that softwa...

I can understand how many people sound as though they were disappointed in Steve McConnell's Professional Software Development: Shorter ...

Recently, I read Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. Amongst excellent discussions of other T...

At the end of my team's last release, I set out to prove that unit tests and quality code lead to fewer bugs. Here are the tools I use...

Currently, I like the findstr command better than other ways to search files in Windows. Prerequisite: Open Command Window Here For X...

Continued from Software-Development Career Paths: Organizational Quality . Moving Up For this option, mostly I can only repeat the tra...

A developer-friend of mine, Tom Wessels , recently asked the computer-age-old question: I just want to be a programmer. But can I? H...

Today marks a year since I moved to London from Chicago. So far, my favourite thing about being here is the trains run like clockwork the v...