Achievement Unlocked: Be a Great Developer!
About a year ago, I was sitting in a pub with Steve and Rob. We were talking about this and that, when we came up with an idea. Now, I say “we”…but I think I mean “me”…but I don’t want…
.NET Demon from RedGate: continuous compilation
The guys at RedGate have just released a Beta of a new tool, an extension for Visual Studio called .NET Demon. Firstly, for everyone: it continuously compiles your code, so that you don’t get the delay when you hit F5.…
Welcome to the Future: Code Reviews, Questions on Code etc
9am. Mary is writing code. So…uhhh, yep, that goes there, and then that value gets passed to here…and, oh? What’s that doing there? That doesn’t look right. Hang on, who wrote this? <click, click> Oh, Bob. Well, his code usually…
Top Tools for 2012
Everyone else does a ‘top tools’ list, so I thought I’d join in. Before I do though, I must defer to the most excellent Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows. I regularly go here to…
Monitor Performance of your Apps at run-time…with PerfMon!
Ben Day has a blog post on a really interesting idea: using Performance Monitor (perfmon) to monitor the performance of your applications at run-time. You can create your own custom perfmon counters and record various things in your application. Then,…