Ralf has a great post explaining his microkernel that essentially is a nice dynamic loader of classes, based on a Contract First Design. He has a great explaination of how this works, and his observations about how it affects team development (reducing dependencies on other team members, adding testability...

Rob Howard had a great post: We've [experienced] a shift from caring less about the underlying technology to how our software solves the user's problem. It's...probably one of the bigger "maturing" steps a software organization has to go through. You can tell when an ISV hasn't...

The Igloo Coder has been blogging about naming conventions and I want to put in my two cents worth. I do like the book he cited, Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams , and when I first got it, I read probably 75% of the book within 24 hours. So I find myself emulating the...

Rob Howard had a great post: We've [experienced] a shift from caring less about the underlying technology to how our software solves the user's problem. It's...probably one of the bigger "maturing" steps a software organization has to go through. You can tell when an ISV hasn't...

Ralf has a great post explaining his microkernel that essentially is a nice dynamic loader of classes, based on a Contract First Design. He has a great explaination of how this works, and his observations about how it affects team development (reducing dependencies on other team members, adding testability...

The Igloo Coder has been blogging about naming conventions and I want to put in my two cents worth. I do like the book he cited, Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams , and when I first got it, I read probably 75% of the book within 24 hours. So I find myself emulating the...