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You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, " The Weekly Source Code ." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much
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I noticed a post over at a blog called " The other side of the moon " where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every day.
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My two-hundred-and-second podcast is up . I sit down (in my home, actually) with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards. What does it add? Can we have the best of both worlds, convenience,
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My two-hundred-and-first podcast is up . Two Englishmen in a row? What a sellout I am. This week I chat with Chris "ChrisNTR" Hardy, an ASP.NET programmer by day who writes C# code for the iPhone by night. He took it upon himself to answer a
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My one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth podcast is up . I chat with Jeremy Zawodny , a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they have
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My one-hundred-and-ninety-fifth podcast is up . The WiX Project was the first big Open Source project out of Microsoft over 10 years ago! Scott talks to project lead Rob Mensching about how the WiX Installer project got started. How much trouble did he
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NOTE: An alternative title to this post might be: " The Weekly Source Code 48: Making The Weekly Source Code 47 Suck Incrementally Less. " Last week I wrote a post about Dynamic Linq Query Generation in order to solve a kind of meta-programming
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I'm up in Redmond this week and I stopped by to abuse the folks at CodePlex.com. I got to see their hardware, build servers, server room and more. You can even see how they abuse the test team. Lots of fun with Sara, Jonathan and the Whole Codeplex.com
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Today I’m very happy to announce that I have officially started my new position as a Director of Engineering at DotNetNuke (DNN) Corp . For those that have followed my career, you could have probably predicated that it was just a matter of time.
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My one-hundred-and-eighty-second podcast is up . Scott's in Mexico this week and he's sitting down with Molly Holzschlag . Molly is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author and correctly works for Opera as an evangelist. She explains
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My one-hundred-and-eighty-first podcast is up . Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continuous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform
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My one-hundred-and-seventy-ninth podcast is up . In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter , and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discussion on open source and the new CodePlex Foundation.
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Very cool news. Today Microsoft announce the creation of the CodePlex foundation . That's CodePlex. org . It's amazing the amount of work that goes into something like this. I was in on a lot of very boring (but important) legal conference calls with
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I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects
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My one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth podcast is up . In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing. Also, be sure to check out Roy's talk at the recent Norwegian Developer's
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