Writing Quality Code "E-Book"

Read on Dave Glover's blog

Writing Quality Code E-Book - a book written by some of our local developer experts about .NET development.

Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista

Now that Windows Vista has been launched for the regular public, there are quite a few new updates (both for Vista itself and other applications) being made available by Microsoft.

Finally, we now have a version of PowerShell that works with Vista!

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista x64 Edition
• Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista

Now I can try out all the tricks that Rob demonstrated at the January SQL meeting!

Simian: Similarity Analyser v2.2.12

I came across Simian in a post by Owen Rogers (one of the developers of CruiseControl.NET) discussing code analysis tools.

It analyses code and looks for bits that are really similar (or the same). Sounds like it would be useful to identify duplicate code blocks, especially in larger projects.