Bob On Development — Musings on the craft and business of software development

On Exceeding Requirements

May 7, 2008

Not having fun as a software developer? I didn’t think so. It’s written all over your code.

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Are Modeling Languages the Next Big Thing in Software Development?

February 9, 2008

Five years from now will we be describing applications rather than coding them?

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Is Software Development Failing as a Craft?

January 6, 2008

… or is it just that craftsmanship isn’t really needed anymore? Maybe a little of both.

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A Reason To Keep a Project on Visual Studio 2003 — in 2007

December 21, 2007

Think twice before moving an ASP.NET project to VS 2005 or 2008 if it also includes classic ASP pages.

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Sql Server Error 18456: Login Failed

December 13, 2007

Getting to the bottom of unhelpful “Login failed for user x” exceptions in SQL Server.

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Fixing the “Specified web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1″ Error

November 25, 2007

I could no longer put off some work on an ASP.NET 1.1 application so I fired up Visual Studio 2003 and immediately got the “specified web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1″ error. This, despite the fact that ASP.NET 1.1 was set in IIS as the framework version for that app.
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