Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
Our laptops at work are a little shy on memory and with Visual Studio w/ReSharper/Sql Server/IIS going all the time the hard drive light basically never goes off. On top of that, our laptop model has a reputation for hard drive failures. We've tried to ask our IT guy for RAM upgrades and been told that the upgraded memory would be too expensive, end of story. Jeffrey finally got fed up this morning and found a pretty reasonable price on 1 gig memory cards at Frye's. He explained it to me this morning as being like the "Tell, don't ask" principle in code. I'm just going to go buy the memory now, and tell them about it later when I turn in the expense report.
Well put.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
