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Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page
Friday, April 03, 2009 10:19 AM

Kevin has posted about refactoring some simple logic from an ASP.NET page and breaking it out into a separate class (Single Responsibility Principle) to make the code more maintainable. Kevin highlights the classic problem with unmaintainable code and works his way into how to not only improve this code but also how to make it more testable. Don't forget to subscribe... Read More...

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Filed under: Test Driven Development, Software Development, Blogging, General Software Development, Refactoring

Thycotic Team Blog On Software Development
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:17 PM

This is my first post to this blog in almost a year !  I have actually been blogging the last few months but not on this blog.  We decided to create a blog for our whole development team so individuals could post interesting items without having to commit to being a total blogger. We have also committed to a regular posting schedule and Josh (our graphic... Read More...

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Kevin Jones is now an ASP.NET MVP!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:21 PM

Our own Kevin Jones has been awarded MVP for ASP.NET by Microsoft. This award recognizes his excellence in technical skills and his contributions to the community in spreading best practices in software development. Kevin has been instrumental in the development of Secret Server since 2.0 and now including Secret Server Online. He has been involved in some fun... Read More...

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Writing "good" code: How do you understand code?
Monday, March 19, 2007 7:22 AM

John Morales has a great post on understanding complexity and how to think about difficult concepts. I think John hits on a key concept in the idea of "good code" while I realize it wasn't the main focus of his post: good code is simple for everyone (the team in question) to understand. I think this falls in nicely with our typical #1 goal on projects - writing... Read More...

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Live Writer
Friday, March 16, 2007 1:12 AM

This is my second post with Live Writer and so far it seems pretty good. We have been using BlogJet for a while and really like the intuitive interface although it seems like Live Writer has most of the same features. Being able to easily pull up an earlier blog post to make a correction is such a great feature for me since I always spot typos or missing links... Read More...

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