Microsoft get on the HTML5 train for Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8.
All change for Microsoft developers. Again. The new Visual Studio developer preview demonstrates that Microsoft are serious about promoting HTML5 and JavaScript as a primary application development platform for Windows 8.
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Estimation pitfalls: Why software development estimates are so difficult
Estimates are, in essence, a kind of crystal ball gazing. You are making a series of educated guesses about how long something will take whilst often being hampered by imperfect understanding and squeezed by commercial pressures.
Posted on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Exception safety in C# – more than just trying and catching
I’m surprised how often exceptions can be a source of bugs. Not just bugs, but nasty, impossible to find bugs that can have maintenance teams chasing their tails for days on end.
Posted on Sunday, December 12th, 2010
ORM wars: Comparing nHibernate, LINQ To SQL & the Entity Framework
Ted Neward described ORM as the “vietnam of computer science” in that it’s a quagmire that starts well, gets more complicated as time passes and ends up as an open-ended commitment with poorly-defined goals and no clear exit strategy.
Posted on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
How to write useful .NET and C# coding standards
Coding standards are one of those documents that managers often feel obliged to produce, so they are frequently written without any clear sense of purpose. A number of different motives can inspire coding standards – not all of them very positive.
Posted on Friday, October 15th, 2010
Using the WCF Authentication Service without cookies
How to use web services that are secured with the WCF Authentication Service in clients that don’t support cookies.
Posted on Monday, July 12th, 2010
Converting EPiServer 6 to use claims-based authentication with WIF
Converting an EPiServer site to become claims-aware is straightforward enough – the complications come when you try to use the editor and administration interfaces.
Posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Creating a security token service website using WIF in Visual Studio
This walkthough explains how to create a test claims issuer in Visual Studio 2008 using the Windows Identity Foundation SDK.
Posted on Thursday, May 13th, 2010