Raymond Lewallen

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• There is too much money to be made in software development

  Its true. Too much money is available to IT. As a business with too much money assigned to an IT budget, you’re allowed to have teams completely fail, miserably, and when they do, you just throw more money at it. Lack of money isn’t the problem. The failures... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:59 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 71 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, Generalities

• Alt.Net does NOT equal Anti-Microsoft

  I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't... Posted Sep 24 2007, 08:08 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, OOP, Patterns and Practices, TDD

• Reminder that the Oklahoma City Code Camp is this weekend!

  For those of you in the area, just a reminder that the code camp is this weekend and we have a few of our very own CodeBetter guys (Jean-Paul Boodhoo and Scott Bellware), along with Dave Laribee, David Walker, Tim Rayburn, Cory Smith, Ben Shierman, David... Posted Jul 26 2007, 05:17 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Continuous Integration, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Patterns and Practices, TDD, User Groups, WPF

• Oh how I miss CruiseControl and NAnt

  Here is a screenshot of my TFS build. 20 minutes. The integration builds have been running for a week now. They are triggered on check-in using a tool called Automoton because TFS does not have this functionallity by default. Most builds are taking over... Posted Apr 13 2007, 11:14 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Common Design Patterns Solution File from my presentations

  Sorry, I thought I had put this up. This is the solution file that contains the quick presentation and simple examples on some common and basic design patterns. This is quite the popular presentation, and I'll be doing it again April 2nd at the Oklahoma... Posted Mar 29 2007, 02:19 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, User Groups

• Another big splash in Redmond - NStatic

  NStatic is a tool I have followed for quite some time now, eagerly awaiting for it to become available for use. I spoke with Wesner Moise , the creator of NStatic, and he mentioned the date will be very soon. For those of you who don't know, NStatic is... Posted Mar 18 2007, 07:24 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• NDepend makes a huge splash in Redmond

  I couldn't be happier for my friend Patrick Smacchia - the creator of NDepend . Anybody who knows me knows that I am NDepend's biggest fan, other than Patrick himself, and really, really want to see the product hit mainstream use and make Patrick rich... Posted Mar 17 2007, 10:29 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Sam Gentile in Oklahoma City March 5th

  CodeBetter's very own Sam Gentile will be in Oklahoma City on March 5th to talk to the user group about Service Oriented Architecture with Windows Communication Foundation. Don't miss this rare chance to see a master in action who has already deployed... Posted Feb 28 2007, 07:11 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, User Groups

• Patterns are not buzzwords

  buzz·word A word or phrase connected with a specialized field or group that usually sounds important or technical and is used primarily to impress laypersons: "'Sensitivity' is the buzzword in the beauty industry this fall" (ADWEEK... Posted Feb 27 2007, 07:31 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• WPF/E requires a Javascript Master?

  You know I haven't dug just a whole lot into WPF/E. I did spend about 4 hours yesterday giving a hard and quick look at it though. What did I get out of it? Well, how is something that requires and ties into javascript the way it does ever going to compete... Posted Feb 22 2007, 07:33 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, .Net Development

• Speaking at Tulsa Code Camp on March 10th

  For those of you in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, North Texas, North Arkansas areas, the 1st annual Tulsa Code Camp will be Saturday, March 10th, 2007. The central theme is .Net 3.0/3.5. There are already several great speakers setup. I'm going to be... Posted Feb 21 2007, 08:48 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with no comments Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• Controller != code-behind

  This always drives me nuts. I'm working on a brand spankin new project that has zero code, so a co-worker and I are working on how we want to address the MVP implementation. So lately I'm reading up on new ideas that people have come with since... Posted Feb 20 2007, 09:05 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, TDD, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development

• How to look, or at least feel, like a complete fool - Part 2

  An extension of this , how many of you would have spent more than 5 seconds debugging why this won't compile? public string Hello { return null; } I spent 5 minutes. This is what happens when you spend too much time switching between VB and C#. I feel... Posted Feb 19 2007, 02:13 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development

• Presenting to North Dallas User's Group on Wednesday, Feb. 7th.

  Yes, if you are in the Dallas area, I will be presenting to NDDUG tomorrow evening. Title: Designing Frameworks - The Do's and Do Not's Abstract: Designing frameworks can be very tricky. There are so many things to consider when designing an API that... Posted Feb 06 2007, 07:35 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, User Groups

• New version and new refactorings from Refactor Pro

  Yep, the guys at Developer Express have released version 2.1 of their popular tools CodeRush, Refactor Pro and of course DxCore . I'm especially excited about the Refactor Pro because of the new refactorings available, some of them specific for Asp... Posted Jan 16 2007, 09:26 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: OOP, Patterns and Practices, .Net Development