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The Final Two Articles are Published!

Travis Laborde — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:15:00 GMT

I saved the two "big ones" for last. I can't wait until tomorrow!

1) Interfaces Everywhere (my article)

2) NDepend (home link) - (my article)

See you at Code Camp!

CodeRush and Refactor Added

Travis Laborde — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:38:00 GMT

I've added a writeup about CodeRush/Refactor. (home link) - (my article)

While I've used probably all of the big Visual Studio Addins, I have to say that CodeRush is the most polished. Certainly it's the prettiest :) See what you think...

Enjoy!

Another Aricle Posted - Debug Visualizers

Travis Laborde — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:06:00 GMT

This article shows off two great Debug Visualizers for Visual Studio, and provides many links to articles and other debug visualizers.

Covered in detail are:

1) Conchango Xml Visualizer (home link) - (my article)

2) Visual Studio 2005 Control Visualizer (home link) - (my article)

There are 10 links at the end to other debug visualizers and articles on creating your own.

Enjoy!

1 More Article Posted

Travis Laborde — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:05:00 GMT

Tonight I've put up my "Blogs, News, and Links" page. On this page I'll post introductions to sites that I think would be of interest to .NET developers.

For now, this includes two sites:

1) DotNetSlackers (home link) - (my article)
2) DZone (home link) - (my article)

Enjoy!

2 More Items Posted

Travis Laborde — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Two more items were added today, again in the tools category:

1. MbUnit (home link) - (my article)
2. TestDriven.NET (home link) - (my article)

I hope you enjoy the writeups!

3 Items Posted

Travis Laborde — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:09:00 GMT

The first three items have been added today - all of them in the tools category:

1. The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (home link) - (my article)
2. XPathMania (home link) - (my article)
3. Gimp (home link) - (my article)

If I do two more tomorrow, then one more each day of the week, I'll have all ten ready for the Code Camp next Saturday!

So what is TTTTTT anyway?

Travis Laborde — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:26:00 GMT

I'm going to be giving a talk at the upcoming Philly.NET User Group soon, entitled

"Travis' Top Ten Tools, Tips, and Tricks."

I thought a site would be nice so that the attendees would have a handy place to gather their links after the talk. Who knows? I might even maintain this site going forward....

An even loftier goal would be to actually blog each of the ten items I plan to cover BEFORE the event.

I'm still trying to narrow down the list to 10 items I can cover in about 8 minutes each :) My candidates so far include:

Tools:

MbUnit
TestDriven.NET
CodeSmith
CodeSmart
CodeRush/Refactor
XPathMania
NDepend
Firefox: Web DeveloperToolbar
PostSharp
Gimp

Tips:

Interfaces Everywhere
Stub Implementations
Custom Attributes

Websites:
    Blinklist

Blogs:
    DotNetSlackers
    DZone

Books:
    Coder To Developer
    Prefactoring
    Head First Design Patterns

Tricks:

Marker Interfaces
Custom Debugger Visualizers