In every area of life there are people with some bad habits or misbehaviors that affect the work process. Software development is also not free of this kind of people. Today I will introduce you code wanderer. (more…)

Yesterday I finished reading the classic project management book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks. Well… this book made me think a lot about nature of software projects, how primitive is our understanding about them and why managing such projects is usually hard fighting with a lot of different issues. The book has also interesting content from the past that is really interesting reading. To understand where you are you should know where you come from.

There are many programs that come with MSI installer and not every installer is free of bugs or small problems. If you are building your own installer using Visual Studio you may want to change it before publishing it to users. Here is little overview of my main free tool called Orca.

I needed simple pager for one of my ASP.NET MVC projects. I mean really simple pager – no new types my code should be aware of, no any other chemistry I don’t really need in early stages. As ASP.NET MVC has nothing to offer I wrote my own *really simple* pager implementation. Here is what I did. (more…)

My previous posting gave quick overview of code metric called Lines of Code (LoC). In this posting I will introduce you how to measure LoC in Visual Studio projects using Visual Studio Code Analysis and NDepend.

I started writing series of blog posting about code metrics. I plan to introduce different metrics and explain their meaning. Also I plan to introduce tools you can use to measure those metrics. Where possible I will introduce you how to use one or another metric. The first metric is the simplest one and it is called Lines of Code (LoC).

Some readers asked me for Visual Studio project of my simple object to object mapper. I am glad to announce that the source code of my mapper is now available for download. It is Visual Studio 2008 project written on C# and besides mapper implementation it contains primitive sample application that shows you how to use my mapper.

Why is my page redirecting me back to front page although it gets all the data it requires? I was going out of my mind when exploring the problem in one system but this time there was really simple answer: you cannot fully trust the code written by n00bs. Okay, here is my story.

As my object to object mapper is now almost completed and I am sure it is good idea to stay on LCG (Lightweight Code Generation) I can now compare the performance of my mapper toAutoMapper.

In my previous posting about object to object mapping Writing object to object mapper: first implementations I wrote first and simple implementations of mapper. These implementations based heavily on reflection. In this posting I will boost up mapper performance by using generics.