Story-Driven Development

I’m a big believer in the “write the story first” method of software engineering. Like “client-first development” or the increasingly popular...

Cat Swimmer

I was searching with the boys this morning and found this: I just thought I’d share. : )...

Episode III: ROTS doesn’t suck and other opinions

My sons and I (and my 11-year old boy’s “date!!!“) all enjoyed Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I know it didn’t have much in the way of...

Avalon + Indigo Beta 1 Release Candidate

Today Microsoft has published the release candidate of Avalon and Indigo Beta 1. The most interesting features of this release over the CTP releases...

Avalon Wants You!

The Avalon team is hiring. For example, here’s a software development engineer (SDE) position on the Avalon team: “The Avalon team is developing...

“dumpbin” is now “link -dump”

Apparently in Whidbey, “dumpbin” (and some other tools that were merely wrappers around link) has been dumped. To get to it now, do “link -dump...

When did the cmd shell start doing this?!?

Imagine the following C program: If I run this from a command shell and I enter “hi” [Enter], it looks like this: If I run it again using “lo”...

Survey: Windows Forms Programming 2ed Length

There has been some publisher/author controversy around the length of the 2ed of Windows Forms Programming. WF2 has essentially doubled in size, so...