The context you care about while you're working on a feature is different from what you'll care about a year from now.

JavaScript is Real Code and Getting Git

A few commands that have recently improved my git workflow

Glenn Vanderberg: Real Software Engineering tl;dr: (Spoiler) Software Engineering as a concept is a joke unless you’re practicing Agile disciplines. (This is the only software talk I’ve ever seen get a standing ovation) Uncle Bob Martin: The Renaissance of Craftmanship tl;dr: Be less terrible. Jim Weirich: The Grand Unified Theory of Software Design tl;dr: Connascence is a word and it’s hard to fathom all the ways in which our code is coupled.

I've been on serveral remote or partially remote teams. These are some antipatterns I've noticed over the years

My skepticism of Ruby's productivity claims completely shattered

Automocking with NUnit takes the pain out of mocks

At Lansing GiveCamp I was chosen to lead a team tasked with creating a guest registration system for Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan . Ronald McDonald House wanted to get off their current system, paper, to streamline their processes and report on their data. The event started around 7:00PM on Friday and ended with 3:00PM on Sunday. That’s 44 hours. At first it seemed too simple and I wondered if Microsoft Access wouldn’t have been sufficient for their needs.

Chicago Code Camp - 2009 - NHibernate can make your domain model beautiful, your application perform better and facilitate Rapid Application Development.

Here’s a simple way to avoid postbacks in your site, still be SEO friendly and degrade gracefully to JavaScript free browsers (and handle middle clicks and copy&paste) in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery. First, we’ll create an alternate MasterPage called No.master with no content, only one ContentPlaceHolder: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID=“MainContent” runat=“server” /> Now, we’re able to tell via HTTP Headers if a Request is an Ajax Request, so we’ll write a new method in our Controller Base class to toggle the master page: