Over my years in (and before) IT, I've seen long projects, failed projects, confused projects, wildly successful projects, and even fun projects that ended far differently than we expected. The consistent take-away for me is that I am a big picture type of person, and that understanding that big, abstract picture cuts out a lot of wasted time sprinting down the wrong paths.

Model-View-Presenter is an architecture pattern that defines a structure for behavior and logic at the UI level. M-V-P separates the logic of the presentation, such as interacting with back-end services and the business layer, from the mechanics of disp…

I was fortunate enough to receive MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions as well as SQLDenis. I Think Denis's idea and contest to see who we can give these to is excellent. To support Denis and his idea, I'm adding another subscription that will be handed over once we read over the responses. That means your chances just got much better to enjoy the subscriptions and the benefits Visual Studio 2010 has to offer!

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.