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In today’s show I wanted to touch on the concepts of “proof-of-concept” and “prototyping”. These two methodologies for attacking a software project are closely related in many ways, but differ completely in how they can be practically applied to a software development effort.
I’ll highlight a new project I’m working on and how that project inspired [...]
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This week I’m getting away from tools and plugins to get a bit more into the operational side of software. The topic this week is all about dealing with those inherited hand-me-down projects. I’ll offer some strategies on how to cope with these projects once they land in your lap, and a tiny bit of [...]
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After several long weeks, and a well deserved vacation Short Order Code is back with the second part of our look at tools to help improve your programming productivity.
This week I’m talking about tools that are a bit more ancillary to the development process, things that help you with the tasks associated with the other [...]
As those who listened to the last episode know I’ve been on vacation for the past month or so. I’m assembling the next few episodes right now and should have episode 4 published some time next week.
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This is part 1 of a two part series on free plugins and addins for Visual Studio. Despite the fact that the Visual Studio IDE is one of the most feature rich out-of-the-box IDEs available there’s never any shortage of what developers wish they could do with their tools. Being developers, we can take care [...]
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In this episode Keith talks about a bit about object inheritance and provides some practical examples of situations you can use it in your code.
I know it’s something that everyone has talked about in their first-year OOP classes, but it’s surprising how often that knowledge seems to get left there, and not readily adapted to [...]
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In this, the inaugural episode of Short Order Code Keith dives into a bit of his background, explains what “Short Order Code” really is, and tells you why you need source control for your projects.
Source control certainly isn’t the sexiest topic in software development, but it’s an important fundamental practice. Having a good source [...]
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In this episode of Short Order Code… well, it isn’t an episode per se. I just wanted to make sure that I put something in the feed that iTunes could find and use to add the show. The first “real” episode of SOC should be up in the next few days. See you soon!
Welcome! You’ve found the blog for the Short Order Code podcast. This is a new software development podcast focused on technologies and strategies for taking your code from super-basic “Hello World” applications, to applications which have some real-world applicability and can be actually useful. The show will be a mix of audio podcasts ans screencasts [...]
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