I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before today (my needs have been well-served by NDepend) but I'm happy to see some improved architecture tools find their way into Visual Studio. Looking at the version comparison chart, it appears this is only available in ...

I am reading this very good book. It's called Head first Design Patterns by Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Freeman. It covers all the basic design patterns an OO-developer could ever use. Actualy, if you are doing OO programming you might see that you were already using some of these patterns but didn't know it. Alle the patterns are quite well explained in a simple matter. And we all know what Einstein said about explaining things simple. But for those of you who didn't.

A while ago (asked Sep 18 at 14:34) I asked a question on StackOverflow. I'm pretty sure I could have found the answer via Google myself but it is so much eaasier to ask someone else to do the work for me and perhaps come up with the better answer.

The question was.

Why can’t string be mutable in java and .net

Why is it that they decided ...

Lets start with the requirements.

• User enters data of Person
• User is only allowed to enter LastName and FirstName.
• User is only allowed 30 characters per field.
• Fields are not allowed to be empty

Seems simple enough.

Lets start by creating some unittests to verify the requirements.

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