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Thinking In .NET

A place to learn about C# and the .NET platform, by Larry O'Brien. But mostly the obligatory braindump cross-linking that characterizes the blogsphere.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Better testing tools could save US companies $22B / year. According to this study, quoted in the September 2002 Scientific American, buggy software costs $59.6B per year, but better testing tools could reduce that by the aforementioned $22B. So download NUnit.
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Highlights from A Measure of Software Development Risk. This was a good paper in the September issue of the Project Management Journal, which I do not believe is available online. Nothing here will be shocking to experienced software development managers, but it does provide some useful statistics, a breakdown of the top risk areas in SD projects, and a list of significant factors contributing to risk.
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Proof of Pentagon alliance with Klingon Empire: Cloaking device, bent wings, heck, the thing's even called the Bird of Prey.

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Peter Drayton has posted an excellent PowerPoint presentation on REST-ful SOAP 1.2.
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