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This blog posts presents an easy to use C# class to encrypt and decrypt strings in .NET.

One of the nice things about ASP.NET MVC is the ability to easily integrate standard web libraries like jQuery in .NET web applications.

While rewriting one of my web sites with ASP.NET I noticed that although support for the ASP.NET Membership Provider comes included out of the box in a ASP.NET MVC 2 project not all the options are fully implemented to the same extend that they are in a b…

Even though the `yield return` statement was added to C# since version 2.0 (around 2004) I never quite understood how it really works.

Earlier this month I received a draft manuscript of Frederick Brook’s latest book [The Design of Design – essays from a computer scientist](http://www.amazon.com/Design-Essays-Computer-Scientist/dp/0201362988) ^[1] in which he reviews both what…

The last few weeks I've been reading the book [The Principles of Product Development Flow](http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-Generation/dp/1935401009) by Donald Reinertsen^[1] in which he describes what he calls the second

A few years ago during my ScrumMaster certification our instructor talked about the different development stages that teams go through.

During a training class this week I learned that the `Complete()` method in the `TransactionScope` class works different from what I have always thought.

The last few days I've been reading [Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise](http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-NET-Architecting-Applications-PRO-Developer/dp/073562609X) by Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello.

A few years ago I wrote an article for the (now defunct) Universal Thread Magazine on how to create reports using Excel's Pivot Tables.

In talking with my [one of my friends](http://geekswithblogs.net/TheCodeMonkey/Default.aspx) a couple of months ago I found that .NET 3.5 now has built-in classes to generate RSS Feeds.

One of the nice features that Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides is the ability to expose a single service via multiple endpoints so that different client applications can consume the same service over different network protocols.

The last few days I've been working on a sample C# library to access Flickr pictures using Flickr's own API.

Below are the brief notes that I took while at DevConnections in Las Vegas (November/2008) This blog entry is mostly bullet points of things that I found interesting without much details.

A few years ago my friend Bill from [Rebar Business Builders](http://rebarbusinessbuilders.com) recommended me the book [The One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success](http://www.amazon.com/One-Thin…

My article [Introduction to Scrum](https://codemag.com/Article/0805051/Introduction-to-Scrum) has been published in the [May/June 2008 issue of CoDe magazine](https://codemag.com/Magazine/Issue/MayJun2008).

One of the best practices when building applications that I've learned over the years is the value of always having a running version of the application available to show end-to-end progress on the system being developed.

A few days ago I was running into an issue with a static class in an ASP.NET application.

*Posted on 2008-09-03, Updated on 2024-09-12* In 2008 I had the opportunity to visit the computer museum in Paris.

I've posted a new version of the DotWiki that I introduced back in 2004 in the [Building Wiki Web Sites with ASP.NET and SQL Server](http://www.codemag.com/Article/0403081) article in CODE magazine.

Late last year (late November 2007 to be exact) Microsoft released [Visual Studio 2008](http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/default.aspx) with .NET 3.5 to production.

Estimates is one of the most controversial topics on software development, including the process to calculate them and the value that they add to the software development process.

We use Scrum at the office to manage our projects.

I've been reading about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for a while and, while at [DevConnections](http://www.devconnections.com/) this week, I've attended a few sessions on the topic and to this day I still have mixed feelings about this new techno…

One of the topics that I've been noticing for a while is how we (as developers) tend to worry about our software development process and try to educate ourselves on the topic while other project stakeholders don't seem to show as much interest on it.

Last week I finished reading [The Mythical Man-Month](http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959) by Frederick Brooks for the third (or so) time.

A unit test is a piece of code written by a developer for a developer.

A few months ago I decided write a C# program to handle binary trees.

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading [Lean Software Development](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321150783) by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.