Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Most people that start programming learn to program in an imperative way. Shortly after, they will probably learn a declarative language too. Many developers go a long way without knowing the difference. Many will probably […]

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. When I was attending night school to become a programmer, I learned several design patterns: singleton, repository, factory, builder, decorator, etc. Design patterns give us a proven solution to existing and recurring problems. What […]

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Submain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. When you create a .NET application in Visual Studio, it contains two build configurations: Debug and Release. But what does this mean exactly? Most developers will tell you that you can transform your Web.config […]

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Submain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Documenting your code is important. It tells other developers what the code does, why it is constructed in a certain way, and how to use it. Good documentation saves them time when they are […]

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Submain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Put two developers together and they’re bound to have a discussion about coding style. No two developers write code in the exact same way. More often than not, one isn’t better than the other and it’s […]

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Submain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. Why do we have the tendency to comment out code instead of just deleting it? The reason is that we don’t want to lose a piece of code that might come in handy in […]