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Coding Blocks Episode 22 is live!
Organizing your code, moving from school-work to work-work, the future of Silverlight, and lots of poo-pooing!
Our Favorite Tools
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We gather around the Festivus pole this holiday season and before we get into the Airing of Grievances, we discuss our favorite tools. No, not people. Actual tools. Srsly. Now I know what you’re thinking “That’s going to be a long list”. Nope. Michael made rules. So the rules are simple: [Read more…]
We’re Testing Your Patience…
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I figured this title was appropriate considering it’s been a month since our last episode. We’ve all been incredibly busy so we hope you’ve been patient waiting and maybe, just maybe it was worth the wait! We’ve crammed quite a bit into this episode which is all about testing. Follow the more link to see the show notes for this particular episode and don’t forget to click one of the share buttons there to let all your friends know about the podcast! [Read more…]
Design Patterns – Iterators, Observers, and Chains, Oh My
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We’re back to the gang of four, continuing with another segment of design patterns. This time we’re talking about some of our favorite Behavioral Design Patterns: Observer, Chain of Responsibilities, Iterator patterns. Also, why the visitor pattern is weird and what it’s like to be raked over hot coals.
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Programmer Questions and Answers
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We’re very excited about ASP.NET vNext, we’ve never been seen together, and a cute little ninja was MEAN to Allen. All that and more in this week’s episode where we attempt to answer some questions.
Got Any Hot Stacks?!
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In this episode, we have a discussion about what type of technology stack you should choose when you go to create your own project whether it be for profit or an open source type of deal. As programmers, we often struggle with balancing our ADHD tendencies to code in every language known to man, or actually trying to accomplish something and create a finished product! With that in mind, check out the show notes for Episode 17 to go see all the things we mentioned in the show. [Read more…]
Design Patterns Part 2 – Oh behave!
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This week we’re following up on our episode about talking about Creational Design Patterns a few of our favorite behavioral patterns: Template. Strategy, and Null Object.
Also, pumpkin spice lattes, Mario’s pants, and a billion dollar mistake. [Read more…]
Static Analysis w/ NDepends – How good is your code?
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This week we’re discussing NDpend, a static analysis tool for .NET.
Triage your biggest problems, Prioritize your refactoring, and CYA with real metrics and trend lines.
We also discuss hidden nuggets, Pintrest-envy, and we pour another one out for google reader.
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Databases the SQL [see-kwuhl]
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Welcome back for part 2 of the podcast about databases. In this half, we discuss several of the things we believe that developers should know about databases. From joins to unions, group by’s and indexing, we try to touch on a lot of the items that most developers should at least be familiar with when working with database systems. [Read more…]
All Your Database Are Belong to Us
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Part one of our two part database podcast starts with choosing the RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) and what to do when you run into deficiencies in that particular database system. First and foremost, what’s with the title?! Are these guys grammatically challenged? If that was your first thought, then you should check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us Others who have been around a little while (longer than us three 21 year olds), we hope you got a kick out of the title. [Read more…]
