I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and I have to say it is a fantastic book. It is full of great advice and tips for programmers. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a programmer at any level. Lots of the advice is common sense and things I already do, but there are also lots of things I know in the back...

While at NDC London I heard a great talk by Matt Burke about exceptions. I will share some of the points here. The talk was based in part on the blog post Vexing Exceptions by Eric Lippert. It defined four types of exceptions: Fatal Exceptions Boneheaded Exceptions Vexing Exceptions Exogenous Exceptions Fatal...

I was lucky enough to hear Mads Torgersen (The Lead Designer of the C# language) speak at NDC London about some of the plans the team has for the next version of C#. Many of these new features are in the preview stage, and can be enabled by using the c# preview flag in your csproj file. The C# team welcomes feedback on...

I have just come home from volunteering at NDC London. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. I met some great people and had a lot of fun. I can’t wait to go back next year. You may have heard of NDC London before. It is a conference for software developers. It is held in London every year and attracts people...