Building with NANT

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.…

Microsoft Source Code Review (sort of)

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 see all…

The Xen of Programming

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 the most common data…

Code like building contractors?

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 we should manage our…