I will be travelling again this week with back to back conferences at VSLive! Orlando and HDC 2005 in Iowa. I am looking forward to reading this long-awaited new book on the airplane trips: Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft Net Development...

In my daily life as a consultant, I work on solving problems for clients. That usually means one of two things: I develop new solutions from scratch (rare), or I wade through old code to try to fashion a durable, maintainable solution. Either way, I have to think about how I build software that not only...