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Testing Posterous Integration

Man, I haven't blogged for a while and actually want to get back into it. Being a developer by nature as well as by profession, I often get into the rut of not letting people know what Torq has being...

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August 12, 2010
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Tom DeMarco: Compelled to Control?

[]( I came across the following article by Tom DeMarco via the Coding Horror blog: Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

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July 20, 2009
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Action Events in .NET

The Async Pattern used in .NET 1.x and 2.0 code always annoyed me because of the excessive coding noise it introduced. The new support in .NET 3.x in relation to lamdas (convenient delegate or...

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December 4, 2008
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Torq FxCop Setup

FxCop is a static analysis tool from Microsoft that checks software source code for conformance to the Microsoft .NET framework’s design guidelines.

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December 4, 2008
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Modbus Driver and Rewrite Decisions

There’s an informal definition for Legacy Software that comes up time to time that cuts to the core of the matter: Legacy software is software that actually works.

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September 28, 2008
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General versus Special Case Tension

One of the blogs I subscribe to is by Reginald Braithwaite. He was recently interviewed on InfoQ and part of the conversation related to the development process of generalizing in programming: ……so...

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September 19, 2008
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