TheServerSide.NET [http://www.theserverside.net/] has a great article up on building your solution using NANT [http://www.theserverside.net/articles/article.aspx?l=NAnt]. It was interesting to read since I'm working on an article on our database build process.…
Kuro5hin [http://www.kuro5hin.org/] has a review of the leaked MS source code [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795]. Mostly they have a review of the comments in the code. It's amusing to see MS putting in the same types of comments I…
Microsoft has been playing around with a language called Xen [http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1441099,00.asp]. It's a set of extensions to C# to manipulate XML and relational data. The article is fairly interesting to work through. It's an attempt to move…
I recently found an article comparing software development to the construction industry [http://www.poppendieck.com/construction.htm]. Here's the response to a software developer who said he wanted to write software like people construct buildings: > I started to explain: "In software development, we are told…