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• Encouraging Bad Coding?

  A recent office-cleaning turned up a quote I'd kept from an automotive magazine from 20 years ago: "Protecting drivers from the consequences of bad driving encourages bad driving" Well, that seems reasonable to me. If you didn't have bumpers, seatbelts... Posted Feb 01 2008, 01:05 PM by keithpleas with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile, General Software Development

• Design for Operations on dnrTV

  I've been working with the patterns & practices group on the "Design for Operations" initiative, and dnrTV episode 100 (up today) covers the Team System Management Model Designer that we're going to be releasing as a CTP within then next week or so... Posted Feb 01 2008, 12:33 PM by keithpleas with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Architecture, Team System, Visual Studio

• Why developers shouldn't test their own software...

  My new wife (6 weeks today!) got her new business cards through her company's web-based application, and they say she now works for the "IT Department". Which was a bit of a surprise, considering that she's a clinical research technician for a large pharamceutical... Posted Jan 04 2006, 12:31 PM by keithpleas with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• A belated "thanks!"

  I've been involved in a number of developer conferences over the years and one of the biggest joys of doing these shows can be the people you meet (also one of the biggest...er...challenges as I recall a fellow who followed me off the stage, into the... Posted Jan 04 2006, 11:59 AM by keithpleas with | with no comments Filed under: .NET

• EntLib 2.0 Hands-On-Labs "under development"

  A couple of people have asked about Hands-On-Labs for EntLib (aka "Enterprise Library of Application Blocks"), so I asked Tom Hollander who replied with: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B9BFF619-236C-4BBB-9AA1-2E7BC562C7F5&displaylang... Posted Jan 04 2006, 11:40 AM by keithpleas with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• VB6 Migration BOF at TechEd

  I'm the host (the TechEd schedule says "speaker" <sigh>) for "Migrating VB6 to VB.NET" at TechEd on Tuesday night from 6:30 to 7:30 . Of course, we're going to talk about migrating applications , not the VB product itself... One of the things I... Posted Jun 01 2005, 05:26 PM by keithpleas with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• "The debugger is not properly installed"

  I too have been a victim of this dreaded problem, likely caused by installing and uninstalling various beta versions of .NET 2.0 frameworks and tools. A great post by Gregg Miskelly (a dev on the VS debugger team) offered tons of promising looking tips... Posted Mar 24 2005, 05:11 PM by keithpleas with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• When Alan talks...

  I mentioned Alan Cooper's keynote at the patterns & practices Summit a couple of weeks back. Alan's talk about "Ending the Death March" was - as expected - outstanding. Here's a picture from the kickback room after his talk with some of our speakers... Posted Mar 15 2005, 11:25 AM by keithpleas with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• VSLive gets a strong endorsement

  Julie just IMed me to point out that Chris Sells blogged that " I Think VSLive Is *It* ". I've been working with Fawcette for a long time - this was my 12th annual show in SF with them - and along the way I guess I just took that for granted. Then I read... Posted Feb 09 2005, 11:46 PM by keithpleas with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• Security piece finally makes it to MSDN

  It took more than a year, but a piece I wrote reviewing "best practices" security principles as applied to the well-known .NET "reference" applications (PetShop, F&M, Duwamish) finally made it onto MSDN last week. As you might imagine, the security... Posted Jan 24 2005, 11:07 AM by keithpleas with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture