How C.R.A.P(y) is your code?

Here's an interesting new metric that is based on cyclomatic complexity and code coverage. The link is to a java plug-in to calculate the metric, but the description and evaluation is interesting.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=215899

Jeremy Miller

Jeremy Miller had a great line when responding to some comments made by Scott Hanselman at the Alt.net conference:

"Mr. Hanselman, a newly minted employee of the company that brought us MSBuild and MSTest but forgot to clone CC.NET while they were at it, ..."

I thought that was really funny.

He has some other good posts about the conference on his blog, http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/default.aspx

Air Conditioning

We're past the hot days of summer now, but for next year I might have to try this:

http://boortz.com/more/funny/redneck_pics_carairconditioner2.html

.net framework source code

Scott Guthrie announced today that Microsoft is going to release the source code to the .net framework, and VS2k8 will have integrated debugging support so you can step through your code directly into the framework code, very nice.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Interesting that this first originated back in 2005 but is just now becoming a reality.

http://www.shawnburke.com/archive/2005/02/03/shipping-windows-forms-source-for-.net-framework-2.0-thanks-for.aspx