As promised here is the slide deck and the completed code materials that were covered in my session at Agile Vancouver. I had a great time interacting with the attendees in the session and throughout
Over my years as a programmer I’ve focussed a lot of attention and energy on business logic. I’m sure you have too. Business logic is, after all, a huge part of what our clients/end users want to se
I just stumbled across a nice little hidden “feature” in the .NET framework. If you’re running on a machine that has the CurrentCulture set to fr-CA the default DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.ShortDa
Microsoft has made some announcements over the last week or so. The first was Microsoft.Data.dll. I think that Oren adequately wraps up the feelings that I have towards it. The second was the announ
On Friday July 23rd I’ll be in Winnipeg giving a one day seminar on the nuances of Brownfield Application Development and how to get the most out of it. More about the day can be found here. I recen
The way that we’re told to use Visual Studio is that we create a solution file and add into it one or more project files. Each project file then gets filled with different development artifacts. Whe
Recently I needed to create a custom WinForms label-like control that allowed for the text to be displayed in a rotated fashion. Our needs were only for four rotation locations; 0 degrees (the defaul
Friday past brought the end to the first incarnation of the PrairieDevCon in Regina. The conference had a great buzz of people, interest, conversations and learning about it. It really was a blast to
In the past I’ve had to take development teams and build their skills. It was part of what I was hired to do. “Build an app, and at the same time make our developers better.” I’m back at it again a
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks speaking at Winnipeg Code Camp, the Winnipeg .NET User Group and DevTeach Toronto. All the events were a blast to do. To those who attended, thanks for the great q