sfeldman.NET
.NET, code, personal thoughts
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Lost Generation – Really Good
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Creativity
One picture is worth a thousand words :)
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Presentation: From Good to Great Developer
I really liked this presentation. Highly recommended.
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LINQ to XML for Better Maintainability
Today I was trying to solve a simple technical problem. Given a specific XML, needed to clean it up by removing any elements of a particular type.
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Too Loosely Coupled Code – One Year Later
More than a year ago, I have posted a blog entry related to what I was trying to implement in one of the projects. Unfortunately, not my team could understand what I was trying to do, neither I was able to make myself clear. Either way, I ended up closing the blog with a question “can code be too loosely (coupled), or your code is so coupled, that anything else is difficult to digest?”. Now I can answer my own question question.
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Consuming ASMX Web Service With WCF
ASMX web services were a breakthrough when appeared on .NET platform. A lot of services were created to take advantage of web services technology.
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To Test or Not To Test: Not a Question!
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Dynamic WCF Proxy
Our new system is entirely based of services (SOA solution). From the day one we had an issue with Visual Studio auto-magically generated proxies and management of those as system grew. Solution at that time was to create clients of the services dynamically, but the knowledge of WCF we had was a minimal. Now, 6+ months later, we finally getting to the point where I am comfortable and pleased with the solution. The interesting part is that WCF had that option all the time, we were not just educated enough to see it. Now we are.
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Goodbye Launcy, Hello Executor
I have recently switched from Launchy to Executor after Terry told me about it. I test drove it for a while and find it better than Launcy, which was a great tool. Time for myself to move on to a better tool.
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Pair-Programming Article
While reading blogs during today morning, I read an interesting one, which captures the way I feel about Pair-Programming. I have my opinion before (old posts), and it’s slightly updated since then, but at the end I still think it’s a great way and not just to develop.