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More Ways to Avoid the Second System Effect

Dare Obasanjo had an interesting post yesterday on the Second System Effect in software development. For those who are unaware, the second system effect is a term first coined by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month . It deals with (in general) Read More...

The Cost of Migrating from VB6

Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should Read More...

Toronto Code Camp Registration Opens

The rumours have been swirling. Now the truth is out. On Sat. Jan 14, there will be a Toronto Code Camp. You can register/find more infomation/hang out at http://www.torontocodecamp.com/ If you're a developer looking for in-depth content from the people Read More...

Pure Math III - The SHA Also Rises

While perusing SlashDot, I came across an entry saying that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm has been broken. If you have any familiarity with cryptography, you'll realize just what this means. After all, SHA-1 is at the heart of SSL, digital signature and Read More...

Standards at the speed of thought

I've had to deal with comment spam in the ObjectSharp blogs over the past few days. Through a search of Google, found a simple, trigger-based solution for .Text (the engine that we use) that I suspect will deal with the majority of the spam that was coming Read More...

Should DSL use UML

I have been quietly following the ongoing conversations regarding Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and whether UML should be used as the mechanism to describe them. My UML and DSL knowledge is not nearly as deep as some of my colleagues, but I believe Read More...

VS2005 Beta Now Available

In case you haven't heard the news Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) is now available. You can download it from here . Two things of note. First of all, there are two versions of the beta available. The full-fledged version is available for MSDN Read More...

You Know Blogging Has Arrived When...

A quote from Bill Gates' keynote at the Microsoft-hosted CEO Summit. “Another new phenomenon that connects into this [collaboration] is one that started outside of the business space, more in the corporate or technical enthusiast space, a thing Read More...