This was probably my favorite Visual Studio 2005 tip I learned in the Mastering .NET Debugging class I recently took. John Robbins is awesome. This tip lets you set a breakpoint at any arbitrary location – no source code required! Think framework library, or 3rd party library, or any commonly called code (that [...]

I just completed Wintellect’s “Mastering .NET Debugging” 2-day online course, led by “Bugslayer” John Robbins. John is a debugging wizard! But everybody already knew that. It’s always amazing to watch an expert make something difficult look easy, and he certainly does that. For hours on end he “spewed” (in a good way) great information, tips, and [...]

Scott Hanselman has posted his annual “Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows“. This list consistently rocks every year! I can honestly say that incorporating much of what’s on the list has changed my development life for the better. Go check it out right now.
If you read Scott’s blog via Google Reader, like [...]

Like relationship break-ups, leaving a blog engine (for another, no less!) is not easy. There’s pleading (“Stick with Blogger, it’ll change to meet your needs, I swear!”), denial (“Database driven blogs are slower than statically published blogs.”), and crying (“Why, why, oh why is this so hard? *sob*”). Not to mention the “grass is greener” [...]

In my article on REST + WCF, I mentioned something I called “URI Purity”:
“URI purity”, as I define it, refers to the degree with which implementation details “leak” into the URI of a resource. (read more…)
Interesting that I come across this post tonight by Jon Flanders [via] where he created an HttpModule to rewrite the [...]

My inaugural article titled “Creating RESTful Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation” is up at developer.com. Go give it a read, if you dare! I recently spent quite a while digging into the REST implementation in WCF 3.5 (Beta 2): WebGet/WebInvoke, WebOperationContext, WebServiceHost and their ilk. It’s some pretty interesting stuff.
Feel free to make [...]

See, I’m not crazy – Joel thinks the new Microsoft product packaging sucks too. (And we all know Joel isn’t one to criticize easily! )

Jeff Atwood posted a list of 13 blog clichés. While I appreciate his emphasis on preference over belief, his readership numbers tell a larger story: Jeff Atwood’s preferences trump even my own beliefs. He knows what he’s talking about. But we all knew that already, didn’t we?
I’m going to do you all a [...]

If you haven’t heard of the open-source project called Synergy, and use more than one computer side-by-side, you need to check it out. In a nutshell, it unifies individual (and often disparate) computers; connecting monitors, keyboards, mice, and “clipboards” via the network.
It claims to support practically any version of Windows (from 95 to XP, [...]

No, not the show (but that rocks). Where I work, everybody gets their own office – that’s right, no cubes. Thank God. (Want your own office? We’re looking for top-notch developers! Shoot me an email at aaron [dot] lerch [at] inin [dot] com if you’re interested.) Some people have home offices they’ve [...]