OCG developers

"Windows Presentation Foundation has a completely redesigned system for binding data to the UI, and can use a variety of binding sources including CLI objects and XML. WPF DataBinding is one of the most important aspects to WPF, so below is a collection of resources"

"Even with the rise of cloud computing, the world still revolves around servers. That won't last, though. Cloud apps are moving into a serverless world, and that will big implications for the creation and distribution of software and applications."

"Some of my favorite blog posts that I've read in the last several years focus on the subject of developer turnover, and I think that these provide an excellent backdrop for this subject. The oldest one that I'll list, by Bruce Webster, is called "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea Effect," and it coins an excellent term for a phenomenon with which we're all probably vaguely aware on either a conscious or subconscious level. The "Dead Sea Effect" is a description of some organizations' tendency to be so focused on retention that they inadvertently retain mediocre talent while driving better talent away"

"It is common for a single parent entity to be related to many child entities. This relationship may be required or optional. A  required relationship means that the child cannot exist without a parent, and if the parent is deleted or the relationship between the child and the parent is severed, then the child becomes orphaned. In such situations it is often useful to have the orphaned child automatically deleted."

"[..] we're surprised that people don't generally feel motivated to improve quality because we vastly underrate the value of the familiar."

"But even in today's SW industry, there does not seem to be much of an expectation from SW professionals that we should have the 'capability/tools to build our own tools' that do much of the project work for us. I am not talking about the simple automation, things like rename/refactor or autocorrect, or intellisense and all that, I am talking about the kind of automation and tooling that writes or deploys software for us and saves hours, days and weeks of our time from handcrafting software solutions from scratch again."

"When a new IT solution is needed in an enterprise, maybe because the business is changing or maybe because an existing manual process should be automated, the people who are in charge of implementing the solution usually quickly get to the question: should we build the solution or should we buy a package?"

"Have you ever seen code that looked like the snippet here? [..] You probably have seen code like this, and I hope that it makes you sad. I know it makes me sad. It makes me sad because it's clearly the result of a fundamental failure to understand (or at least implement) polymorphism."

"Microsoft has always been at the forefront of creating great programming languages - Visual Basic, C#, and F# being the most recent examples. [..] Today, we're introducing a new programming language that solves a very specific problem - getting JavaScript development to scale. That language is TypeScript."

"Dependencies are nearly unavoidable for non-trivial software projects. These can be large dependencies, such as web frameworks and databases, or smaller decisions, such as pagination helpers or simple math libraries. The inevitable inclusion of these dependencies, however, is not an excuse to shape the solutions of your system around what you do not own. Instead, there ought to be an emphasis on finding the right fit and then owning the way dependencies interface with your system."

"One of the biggest struggles that developers have with adopting Unit Testing, whether it's Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or even just Test Eventual Development (TED), is the difficulty some code is to test.  This is typically when code doesn't follow the SOLID design principals."

"When you really boil it down to its implementation, FizzBuzz is something of an irritating program. I'm not sure how much the author of the problem really thought about FizzBuzz, but it turns out it's difficult to express well with the tools available to most imperative programming languages and easy to express using functional patterns available in Haskell and ML."

"[..] what about inversion of control containers? There's a lot of confusion around what they do, and why you should use one at all. Every now and then I meet a developer, who says they read all the definitions, introductions and basic examples, and they still don't get why would they use a container."

"Switching from developing ASP.NET WebForms to MVC might seem awkward at first, but Ed demonstrates why the change needn't be painful, and how best to build a set of tools for rapid MVC development."

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

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

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

"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"

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

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