Michael Mello commented on my last post and is looking for a blog-hug. Somebody go visit his blog already so he doesn't feel left out of .NET land :)
--Marcie
I got my copy of Test-Driven Development in .NET today from Amazon, and I’m really looking forward to reading it. I’ve been reading Refactoring off and on, and it has sold me on the concepts of TDD, but I need to learn more about the implementation(s). I’ve dabbled maybe a pinky toe into trying to do my own TDD, but I don’t feel really confident yet about what I’m doing, so I’m hoping that this book teaches me some good techniques.
First off all, I’m thrilled that the weblogs.asp.net site has grown so much, it’s great to see so many people blogging. But the main feed (and the main page), is in my mind, out of control. I’m getting Tower of Babel visions here. Julia Lerman does a great job of pointing out some of the problems. For starters, make the “don’t include this post in main feed” box a little more obvious, don’t hide under “Advanced Options” that requires a special click.
Michael Weinhardt (aka Mike Dub), or as I like to call him, “DataGridView Boy” is a really cool guy, for a WinForms person J Check out his WinForms blog: Windows Forms Redux.
Nish’s new article seems to be sparking some debate about C++ in the managed world (see the forum at the bottom of the article).
If you were looking for icons… http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/icons/components
"GEDs, Web Design, and Oracle" Those are the advertised offerings of a little training facility near the CodeProject offices. Something tells me my old friends who used to command top-dollar contract rates and salaries for Oracle work a few years ago are going to be switching to other hot technologies…
Spotted on BookBlog:
“The study finds that women do as well as men in a piece-rate performance on tasks, but worse then men when the task is set up as a tournament, where one person wins and the rest loses. I wonder whether the study is based the biased assumption that intra-group zero-sum competition is a good thing, and therefore, men are superior to women if they are better at it.“
Julia Lerman: There are more speakers at Tech Ed 2004 named “Brian” than there are women.
[Source: http://www.devsource.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1572877,00.asp]
I just noticed Raghavendra saying that the WinForms DataGrid (then GridView) has been renamed to "DataGridView". Sure enough, the CTP build says "System.Windows.Forms.GridView is obsolete, this class will be removed at the start of M3. Use DataGridView instead." As far as I can tell, in ASP.NET it's still called "GridView". Is it just me, or does it seem like calling the WinForms version "DataGridView" would just cause confusion?