Jeffrey Palermo [MVP]

Browse by Tags

• Agile
• Build Automation
• Data Access
• Developer Community
• Featured
• Learning
• Managing
• Testing
• Tools

• What are the Alt.Net principles? - my answer

  I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are... Posted Sep 23 2007, 11:49 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Build Automation, Coding Principles, Data Access, Developer Community, Featured, Learning, Tips & Tricks, Tools

• Focus on the core: the most important part of the application

  Technologies are coming and going faster than every before. In this environment, how can we provide companies with a good return for their software investment. Looking back, J2EE was all the rage. Software executives were banking on J2EE and making significant... Posted Jul 15 2007, 02:36 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Principles, Featured, Managing, Tips & Tricks

• Baking requirements - Developing with raw ingredients is waste

  I have learned an important lesson from my combined experiences at all the places I've worked. That is: raw requirements cause waste. A term I've used (and have heard others use) is that requirements are either "baked" or "not baked"... Posted Jul 10 2007, 12:23 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Coding Principles, Managing, Tips & Tricks

• If it takes forever to start your app with the debugger, check for thrown exceptions - level 300

  Overview of Exceptions There are quite of a few things that are just laws of Object-Oriented development, and one of those is that exceptions should be avoided. If you can prevent an exception from being thrown, do it. In the world of managed runtimes... Posted Aug 17 2006, 09:03 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Principles, Testing, Tips & Tricks, Tools

• Blogging from Tech Ed 2006 - Brian Button on how to write frameworks - level 300

  Brian Button from the patterns and practices team gave a session bright and early Friday morning that was great. He covered how to write frameworks. What’s interesting is that he focused on writing frameworks as a non-technical problem since he’s seen... Posted Jun 16 2006, 09:46 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Principles, Developer Community, Tips & Tricks

• StructureMap v1.1 (for .Net 2.0) released on sourceforge - level 000

  Not long ago, Jeremy Miller released version 1.0 his excellent dependency injection tool, StructureMap . I've ported it to .Net 2.0, and I've added generics to the bread and butter class, ObjectFactory. Download the . Net 2.0 release on sourceforge.net... Posted May 16 2006, 05:32 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Principles, Developer Community, Tips & Tricks

• Integration testing demonstrated - level 200

  In this post, I'll talk about and demonstrate integration testing. If you are just starting out with integration testing, you want to test small before you test big. Full-system tests are good, but if they fail, they don't give much of a hint as to where... Posted May 09 2006, 05:00 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Coding Principles, Tips & Tricks

• Blake Caraway continues on "Team Smells" - level 100

  It's a great read: Team Smells...Refactoring For A Better Tomorrow (Part Two) and if you missed the first one: Team Smells...Refactoring For A Better Tomorrow (Part One) Posted Apr 03 2006, 08:31 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with no comments Filed under: Coding Principles, Tips & Tricks

• Blake Caraway defines "Team Smells" - level 100

  We all know about code smells, but Blake Caraway is defining some team smells . Great post! Posted Mar 23 2006, 10:17 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Coding Principles, Tips & Tricks