I think the last week or so has yielded some of the best software writing I’ve read since I read the book by the same name pieced together by Joel
Most of these are from the blogs at CodeBetter.com.
James Shore writes an interesting aricle on QWAN, Quality With[out] a Name. Which is an intersting response to the c2 article.
Joel wrote a great article on Development Abstraction.
Jeremy Miller wrote an excellent intro to Six Design Patterns
James Bach destroys Best Practices.
On the more meat and potatoes side of things (code not words?)
Jay Kimble gives a great introduction to XSLT called XSLT for the Uninitiated. I really could have used this a few month ago.
Beginning Xpath and Beginning XSLT are the first two of what will hopefully be a continuing series.
Karl Seguin gives great reasons why not to use string concatenation and why to use string.format instead. I’ve taken what he said to heart and I’ll chastize myself when I type + in C# or & in VB.NET.
John Papa wrote about SCOPE_IDENTITY() and @@IDENTITY. It was very timely information for me because I recently had need to use these, and I rarely do SQL work.
Last night at AADND Tim Landgrave shows us the design of a smart client application which uses the CAB. It was very interesting. He mentioned that they converted/upgrade some 30+ “legacy” applications to use their framework, built on top of the CAB. They did so in a very short period of time, saving the company much time and money.
Overall it has been a great week with much thanks to those bloggers and AADND for keeping me fueled.