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 will still exist. Mediocre developers can...

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 have time to read them right now. I'm the...

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 Nicollette and Eric Stott. Our keynote speaker...

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 10 minutes. CC + NAnt, this build would take about...

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 City Developers Group meeting. Download the...

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 a static code analysis tool. NStatic is used to...

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 beyond his wildest dreams! There wasn't a day that...

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 framework 3.0 based enterprise applications and learn...

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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 with Flash? Not only that, but you have to have...