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How to write better code / Intro to Agile

The best programmers that I know are knowledgeable about agile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) and practice one or more aspects of agile programming.  On Wednesday, 2/17/2010, I gave a short presentation to the Sogeti Cincinnati Microsoft Practice to provide an introduction to agile concepts, and to generally talk about how programmers can improve their programming skills.  I certainly [...]


Charting in Silverlight with Visifire Charts

Currently (12-8-09) there are only a couple free options for creating custom charting solutions in Silverlight / WCF.  One is to utilize Microsoft’s new Silverlight 3 Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight) and the other is Visifire Charts (http://www.visifire.com/).  At this point in time, it seems to me that Visifire is clearly a more sophisticated solution in terms of [...]