I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Nuff Said.

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

<Begin Musing> I was reviewing some code the other day from one of my developers who recently made the jump from classic ASP to ASP .NET and I found that the developer was using a lot of the old VB core functions like cint(), dateadd() etc instead of their new .NET Framework counterparts. In my...

There has always been a mini religious war between programmers about code layout/style and when to optimize. My personal take on this has been put more weight on readability and maintainability over highly condensed, optimized code. Here's a few thoughts on this subject: Don't optimize first In almost...