Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Mac... Mohammad Ashraful Alam, January 1, 0001 In the recent trend of software development and information technology, Agile has been a Buzz word among the developer community. There are three types of guys, while a new hype gets introduced. First, ... Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Mac... 0 0 0
Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Shell hoarked, January 1, 0001 I’m always happier in my Agile mentality with having something up and running that I can hit F5 on and see the fruits of my labor and this is no different. So, the next thing we need to do is get a basic ... Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Shell 0 0 0
Managing the Chicken Game technodrone, January 1, 0001 I enjoyed this article this morning. I observe and play the chicken game constantly. I always called it the "Is it done yet game". As the recession worsens we are afraid to say "that enhancement to the ... Managing the Chicken Game 0 0 0
Universal NAnt Script for MbUnit Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 If you run automated builds using NAnt, you may or may not know about the MbUnit Task you can add to NAnt. MbUnit has pretty good directions for how to do get their task setup. I've been out to their site ... Universal NAnt Script for MbUnit 0 0 5
Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Data Design hoarked, January 1, 0001 So I’m a firm believer that once you have business requirements its a good idea to have the data right. You may have to expand on it later, but it’s good to know what you’re dealing with in a problem space. ... Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Data Design 0 0 1
TechFuse 2009 Conference - March 17, 2009 TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Join us for TechFuse 2009 on March 17! It’s back and even bigger than last year! With 36 sessions and two keynote presentations to choose from, TechFuse 2009 is the most cost-effective way for IT and Developer ... TechFuse 2009 Conference - March 17, 2009 0 0 12
Building Airplanes with Agile Scrum Chris Eargle, January 1, 0001 Agile Scrum works great for building software projects. You have a deliverable product after each cycle where the development team focuses on delivering specific features without being sidetracked. But ... Building Airplanes with Agile Scrum 0 0 0
Florida Technical Communities (January 2009 Update) Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Florida has a very active developer community. The biggest problem we seem to have is that all of these different groups usually don't know about each and there hasn't been a "centralized clearinghouse" ... Florida Technical Communities (January 2009 Update) 0 0 0
Selenium/JUnit: Logging Theo Moore, January 1, 0001 I've been trying today to figure out a good way to get logging from my Selenium tests. I've considered and explored several methods and haven't been really happy with any idea I've found. I tried Log4j, ... Selenium/JUnit: Logging 0 0 0
How 6 Ounces Changed My World View D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 The world is a vampire, sent to drain. Secret destroyers, holds you up to the flame. And what do I get for my pain? Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game. ~ Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet with Butterfly ... How 6 Ounces Changed My World View 0 0 8
Gepsio Jan 2009 CTP Released Jeff Ferguson, January 1, 0001 I am pleased to announce the first Community Technology Preview [CTP] release of Gepsio, an open-source XBRL document object model for .NET. The release includes a ready-to-use .NET 3.5 assembly called ... Gepsio Jan 2009 CTP Released 0 0 2
South Florida Code Camp 2009 – 2/7/2009 – Register No... Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 We have a big pile of speaker submissions that the track chairs are sorting through and are in the process of getting posted and organized on the website. Subject to change the track line up is: Intro ... South Florida Code Camp 2009 – 2/7/2009 – Register No... 0 0 1
The DevHuddle Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The DevHuddle. This is a term I started using to identify what my team does to plan development work for an iteration. Basically this is where we sync up and get everyone on an even playing field for consistency, ... The DevHuddle 0 0 0
TFS Workitems : On the fields, their namespaces and in which work... terje, January 1, 0001 At the moment there are five different popular process templates, three from Microsoft official, one on Codeplex (by some Microsoft guys afaik), and one from Conchango. The fields defined in the workitemtypes ... TFS Workitems : On the fields, their namespaces and in which work... 0 0 0
The UML Learning Path Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 (Click picture for a larger image.) No, I'm not going to name any of the devs who inspired this post. They wouldn't know who I am, anyway. But it takes an extremely high degree of arrogance to go from ... The UML Learning Path 0 0 4
BizTalk Deployments with PowerShell EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... As part of my first look at ESB Guidance 2.0 (which has some excellent enhancements which I'll post about shortly) I've been interested in the way the ... BizTalk Deployments with PowerShell 0 0 12
SOA Brouhaha andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 A recent guest editorial by ZapThink’s Ron Schmelzer on TechTarget.com has gone out on a limb and panned Microsoft’s messaging around Oslo and its greater SOA strategy. Schmelzer and ZapThink really believe ... SOA Brouhaha 0 0 0
Dev Tech Wrap-Up D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I got back from DevTeach Montreal on Friday, and it was once again a fantastic conference experience. A whole week of meeting and talking with fantastic professionals specializing in all sorts of development ... Dev Tech Wrap-Up 0 0 1
What is in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0? Drew Robbins, January 1, 0001 Did you see the announcements over the last month on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0? Are you still wondering what is new and improved in those products? There is a lot! I’ve been developing ... What is in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0? 0 0 0
Unit Testing and SharePoint deyaert, January 1, 0001 I've been looking around for sometime, but never found some good information about it. Well, today, I've found some interesting articles (It's not really that new, the article is dated September 15 2008). ... Unit Testing and SharePoint 0 0 0
About pair programming marocanu2001, January 1, 0001 I am for 7 years now in the IT industry I have heard a lot of good things about pair programming, I don't know if it is just a rumour :), like the fact that pair programming reduces the number of bugs ... About pair programming 0 0 0
Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 25: The UML Guy's Terms Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 Note: This was scheduled for tomorrow (hence the date drawn on the strip); but due to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I'm releasing it a day early. Continuing The Project That Time Forgot, a UML case study ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 25: The UML Guy's Terms 0 0 0
Test Driven Development Firestarter Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Event Date: Saturday, January 19, 2009 Event Time: 08:30 (registration), 09:00 – 17:00 Event Location: Microsoft Tampa Office If you want to learn what TDD is all about, this is the event to attend. It’s ... Test Driven Development Firestarter 0 0 0
BIDSHelper is #1 Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 Yesterday at the 2008 PASS conference they announced the winners of the SQL Heroes contest and I am proud to announce that BIDSHelper won first place with a perfect score of 55 out of 55. And extra congratulations ... BIDSHelper is #1 0 0 2
Dev Team Management best practices JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Goal Ensure your developers build code to meet the spec (the contract of customer requirements) in a timely manner Ensure your developers build code changes that don’t break the spec and that pass functional ... Dev Team Management best practices 0 0 3
My Favorite Sessions from PDC08 Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 Here's the complete list of sessions from PDC and my personal favorites. You can find all the recordings of these sessions at www.microsoftpdc.com. Here's my personal favorites: Windows Azure (Hosted ASP, ... My Favorite Sessions from PDC08 0 0 2
Ulterior Motive Lounge Intermission 3: Plan for the Future, Learn... Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: My word, what a lot of typos! I blame the bright sunlight and the glare it created on my Tablet PC. And I wasn't gonna move, because bright sunlight in Michigan is a rare treat right now. Fixed! ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Intermission 3: Plan for the Future, Learn... 0 0 2
XP Can Impove Your Code... But It Won't Lee Brandt, January 1, 0001 QUICK THOUGHT: The engineering practices in Extreme Programming (Like TDD, Pair Programming, etc) can lead you to improving your code. But it won't do it for you. TDD will point out design flaws, but it ... XP Can Impove Your Code... But It Won't 0 0 1
Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 17: Process Cop Academy Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 In our last Episode, we wrapped up Activity Diagrams (for now) by showing how Swimlanes let us specifiy who or what is responsible for each Activity or Branch. After the Lounge has dried out, we get some ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 17: Process Cop Academy 0 0 0
Ulterior Motive Lounge Q&A 1: Mitch Asks About Interactive UML Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 Today, @Anklebuster -- a.k.a. Mitch Allen of Morpho Designs, and maker of the really cool Morpho Board game design tool -- asked some really interesting questions: The packages remind me of how Mindmap ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Q&A 1: Mitch Asks About Interactive UML 0 0 1
Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 8: Right Court Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 In our last episode, The Reader and The UML Guy explored for inheritance lets you design common behavior and structure, and then describe specific variations of that behavior and structure. Then they showed ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 8: Right Court 0 0 0
Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 5: To Gumball, and Beyond! Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Minor but significant art correction. UPDATE: Another minor but significant art correction. In our last episode (not counting the Intermission), Pestbuster pursued Pest right through the strip, ... Ulterior Motive Lounge Episode 5: To Gumball, and Beyond! 0 0 0
And-every-single-one-of-them-is-right! Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 So one time, I showed a friend a Web site for a project I was working on. And he asked an interesting question: Well, you're design guy right? Shouldn't you be writing a design document? And what I suddenly ... And-every-single-one-of-them-is-right! 0 0 0
And somehow... Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 ...I managed to get through the entire Agile Summer Camp without drawing a single UML diagram. I must be coming down with something ... And somehow... 0 0 0
What you missed at Agile Summer Camp 2008... Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 (Reposted from Agile Summer Camp. The team will edit and improve that version, filling in the gaps in my memory and understanding. This is my rough draft.) Organized by Chris Woodruff with the able assistance ... What you missed at Agile Summer Camp 2008... 0 0 0
"Legible" does not mean "Pretty" Martin L. Shoemaker, January 1, 0001 The point of UML – and I'll repeat this often – is communication. But there are different kinds of communication, even when the medium is the same. For example, speech is a very common communication medium; ... "Legible" does not mean "Pretty" 0 0 0
PDC 2008: Final Thoughts Mitchell Land, January 1, 0001 I can hear your screaming from here (on the plane at who knows how many thousands of feet overhead): "final thoughts, what happened to Days 2, 3, and 4?" Well, in answer to that, I bring you this bit of ... PDC 2008: Final Thoughts 0 0 0
DevConnections Keynote: Next 10 Years of IT Gary Pronych, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... DevConnections Keynote: Next 10 Years of IT 0 0 0
COM, RPC and Heap Corruption - Windbg Part 2 dbose, January 1, 0001 Mr. Bugsy Elusive We have a C# client and a Local COM server hosting a VoIP stack. We use COM interop. for API and events to the COM server. Today after some changes, when we started to load testing the ... COM, RPC and Heap Corruption - Windbg Part 2 0 0 0
Routing when using direct port Jennifer Zouak, January 1, 0001 Tripped on this one again -- the idea is that the orchestration posts a message directly to a message box and from there it is picked up by subscribers. This wasn't working, then when I saved the message ... Routing when using direct port 0 0 0
Takeaways from ALT .NET Conference Seattle (Day 1) Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 Now that I'm a (woohoo!) bona-fide architect, in a shop that I'd categorize as agile (although I don't know enough to be able to say what flavor of agile we follow), I now have an interesting task ahead ... Takeaways from ALT .NET Conference Seattle (Day 1) 0 0 0
ESRI Dev Summit 2008 Keynote: Alan Cooper Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 At last year's developer summit, I was quite impressed by the quality of the keynote speaker. This year's speaker was Alan Cooper, author of "About Face" and "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum." He had ... ESRI Dev Summit 2008 Keynote: Alan Cooper 0 0 0
ALT.NET Conference -- Day 2 Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 I've got to say, I've been really impressed by the number and quality of the attendees from Microsoft -- Simon Guest, Howard Dierkin, Peter Provost, Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman... and I'm sure I missed ... ALT.NET Conference -- Day 2 0 0 0
ALT.NET Conference -- Intro/Session 1 Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 I've somehow found myself at a conference of agile practitioners in Austin, TX called ALT.NET. My main reason for attending this conference was a deep desire to explore what options exist for development ... ALT.NET Conference -- Intro/Session 1 0 0 0
Twin Cities Developers Guild Meeting - November 11 TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Where: New Horizons (4510 West 77th St. Edina, MN 55435) When: Tuesday, November 11th at 6:00 PM Website: www.twincitiesdevelopersgui... Session: Learn about how the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), ... Twin Cities Developers Guild Meeting - November 11 0 0 0
Chippewa Valley Code Camp 2008 Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 The Chippewa Valley .NET Users Group is holding their first Code Camp on Nov. 8th, 2008 in Eau Claire, WI. I’m one of the presenters, and I'll be talking about XNA. I think it's pretty neat how Doug Rhoten ... Chippewa Valley Code Camp 2008 0 0 0
My Year With TDD Brian's House Of Bilz, January 1, 0001 It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, ... My Year With TDD 0 0 0
Well, How Did I Get Here? Glenn Burnside, January 1, 0001 Ok. First post and all that. Let's get all the fluff out of the way now. I've kept an internal blog at work for about 5 years now. Sitting at PDC08 this week, I decided it was time to go public. The blogsphere ... Well, How Did I Get Here? 0 0 0
The road to passing the Joel Test Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 I was checking out the Stack Overflow site recently and stumbled upon a question concerning what a programmer should look for in a new position. The post’s accepted and best rated solution was to refer ... The road to passing the Joel Test 0 0 2
Avoiding Inheritance Dependencies Using Generics and Lambdas Jason Olson, January 1, 0001 One realization I have come to when talking with many other developers is that there is a good number of developers that don't realize that inheritance introduces dependencies directly into your classes. ... Avoiding Inheritance Dependencies Using Generics and Lambdas 0 0 0