I wanted to drop a quick note out here to remind everyone that the InterTech sponsored DevBlitz 11-hour conference is happening at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Thursday, March 29th. There are still "Option 1" seats open -- you can register on their site: http://www.devblitz.com. This should be a great event. I'll be opening the event with Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. Apress Author Brian Myers will be covering Workflow Foundation and author Andrew Troelson...

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As a follow-up to my post yesterday on doing effective code reviews, you should check out a product called NDepend (http://www.ndepend.com). This little gem uses something called Code Query Language (CQL) to execute queries against your code as if it were a database. The folks who designed this language did a great job of making the syntax very SQL-like, so the experience should be familiar to anyone who's retrieved data from a database before. This will allow you to ramp on the tool quickly and...

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I was having breakfast with Josh Holmes at the Microsoft MVP Summit this morning and we were asked by one of the attendees about resources for doing effective code reviews. So this got me thinking about the things that have really worked for me in the past and I thought I’d pass them along. Tip #1: First and foremost, review code often. I’ve worked with many architects that do regular code reviews every one or two weeks. Think about how much code you yourself could write in one eight hour work day....

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