OCG developers

"The various ways of comparing two values for equality in .NET can be very confusing. In fact if we have two objects a and b in C# there are at least four ways to compare their identity, plus one operator that looks like an identity comparison to add to the confusion"

"As an advisor to some of the world's largest companies, it's my job to keep up with advances in technology.  I'm paid to answer questions like, "what's after cloud?""

"Here are factors and tools to consider when mining Big Data for small business intelligence. AWS, SumAll, and Google Cloud Storage might help you get a good ROI."

"One of the scenarios that I always demonstrate during an ASP.NET MVC class is how to create a mass assignment vulnerability and then execute an over-posting attack."

"Consider the following method signatures: IEnumerable Process(List input); IList Process(IEnumerable input); Of the two, which is the better choice? Write down your answer."

"With this post, based solely on my own opinion, I wanted to give those people the simple yes or no answer to their question, and here it is: "Is Silverlight dead 2012?" Yes, it is. IF and ONLY IF your target is Joe Blow playing FarmVille on his iPad while watching "[YourCountryHere] got talent"."

"Microsoft StreamInsight consists of a set of programming tools, and most of what is written about StreamInsight is written specifically for programmers. But what if you are, for example, a database administrator or data analyst without an extensive programming background? You're wondering if StreamInsight might be a solution for a problem you have, but the existing documentation leaves you scratching your head."

"This blog poses a rather radical premise. It suggests that Refactorings have counterparts called Transformations. Refactorings are simple operations that change the structure of code without changing it's behavior. Transformations are simple operations that change the behavior of code. Transformations can be used as the sole means for passing the currently failing test in the red/green/refactor cycle. Transformations have a priority, or a preferred ordering, which if maintained, by the ordering of the tests, will prevent impasses, or long outages in the red/green/refactor cycle."

"Interfaces are wonderful for a language like C#. Interfaces give us everything we need to work with an object in a strongly-typed manner, but place the least number of constraints on the object implementing the interface. Interfaces make the C# compiler happy without forcing us to pay an inheritance tax for working with a class hierarchy. We'll define an interface that describes exactly how we want to fetch customers and how we want the customers packaged for us to consume."

"This course covers the general purpose query facilities of Language Integrated Query (LINQ)"

"Agile software development with a focus on effective Scrum and proven team practices."

"A look at how to implement estimation in an Agile environment"

"The EF 4.1 DbContext API works with Code First, Database First, and Model First and provides a simplified, productive environment for building all types of data-backed applications"

"This course is designed to give you everything you need to become a productive C# developer on the .NET platform"

"A look at the core data structures and algorithms used in day-to-day applications."

"This course introduces foundational principles of creating well-crafted code and is appropriate for anyone hoping to improve as a developer"

"Visual Studio 2012 has a great new Test Explorer.  The Test Explorer is where you see the results of your unit tests.  In Update 1 it has been extended, and you can now organize and filter the test runs based on several conditions, among them your Projects, and Traits."

"Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven development), and it's well known among most TDD circles."

"Here's a few unusual things about C# that few C# developers seem to know about."