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.NET Development and General Musings

Most Developers have never designed Products.

Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:26 by Thomas
Most websites are deployed to a single location. Even in a load balanced scenario, we still think of it as a single site. However, it is much rarer to find developers that have developed web sites where the same code is installed to multiple locations for multiple customers. These types of sites are... [More]

Assume a handoff

Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:03 by Thomas
Developers should write their code with the assumption of a handoff. In other words, developers should write any and all code with the assumption that someone else will need to modify and support that code in the future. Sadly most developers do not realize the merits of this goal until they a... [More]

Knowledge soup to nuts

Saturday, 15 March 2008 19:30 by Thomas
One the rarest and yet most valuable attributes a developer can possess is knowledge about all systems involved in their solutions. Most developers unfortunately, think they posses such knowledge but rarely do. Let’s take the case of a simple ASP.NET website. To get such a site to th... [More]