It never ceases to amaze me how different naming conventions are from language to language.  It seems each language has their own coding convention or style that gets adopted over time.  More times than not these naming conventions are established by authors in books, magazines, and Internet articles.  Developers that read those publications follow suite the majority of the time.  For example, I can remember years ago developers who wrote PHP named files they included in their programs with the extension of ".inc" yet other files ended in ".php".  The huge downside to this was the .inc files would be passed directly through from an Apache server as plain...

Recently at work we have been having some discussions around standardizing .Net development around Rockford Lhotka's CSLA framework.  My team has been digging into CSLA for several weeks now generating business objects using Codesmith Freeware 2.6 and working through Rockford's book generating CSLA objects for our main product.  With only a few weeks into it and no real production time behind the framework we are having a hard time jumping on one side of the fence or the other.  There are things we like about CSLA such as the ability to restructure an application from a two tier to a three tier application just by changing...

  I mentioned the other day that five team members from work were coming to Mississippi for the weekend.  Chris arrived this morning about 11:00.  Soon after arriving we found out his luggage never left Detroit.  Hopefully it will arrive when we go to pickup the other guys at 8:30 tonight. After getting in we headed to "The Front Porch" to eat a nice Southern buffet for lunch complete with fried okra (which Chris had never tried), brisket, turnip greens, purple hull peas, gumbo, cornbread, yeast rolls, mash potatoes and gravy and much more.  I think Chris ate his own...

Team building is an important part of work.  A lot of companies, ours included, promotes team building exercises.  This helps to build moral among the team and if other teams are included it helps to break down silos.  Currently I live in Hattiesburg, MS but I work remotely for a company in Michigan called Quicken Loans.  Being a remote team leader has its challenges, one of which is team building.  How do you do team building when you are 1,000 miles away?  This weekend we are doing what I think is going to be the ultimate team building exercise.  A...

Codemash 2008 scheduled for January 9th-11th is only a few months away.  It seems like only a few months ago I was watching Jim Holmes walk around the Kalahari Resort in a Hawaiian shirt and flip flops with six inches of snow on the ground outside.  Good times.  Another Codemash event is just around the corner and rumor has it the sessions have been finalized.  I have two sessions slated for Codemash, both of which will be given on Workflow Foundation.  The first session is an introduction to Workflow Foundation.  Here is the abstract: Your boss comes...

AT&T finally released their official ROM to upgrade the 8525 to Windows Mobile 6.  Living on the cutting edge I downloaded the ROM during lunch on Friday and started the update.  The download is currently available from the HTC web site although it is stated the ROM will no longer be available after February 2008.   Why the upgrade will disappear I'm not sure I haven't investigated it yet.  It is worthy to mention that Good Mobile Messaging users are instructed to not to upgrade to this version.  Below you will find out how the upgrade went along with what features...

Workflow Foundation's "brain" is the runtime.  The runtime's main function is to handle all workflow instances, load the appropriate services, and keep track of what needs to happen next.   Before jumping in with Workflow Foundation it is important to understand the pieces that make up the workflow runtime and where the extensibility points within the runtime are located.  In this part, Understanding the Runtime, we'll look at the pieces that makeup the runtime and discuss various things developers will want to consider.  To get started let's look at a simple example of starting the runtime and executing a workflow. 

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