Agile Nirvana? AJ Warnock, January 1, 0001 Thanks Joe Healy and Mike Wells! If you were fortunate enough to attend either the Sarasota Developers Group meeting or the new Sarasota SQL developers group meeting on Tuesday night, I am sure that you ... Agile Nirvana? 0 0 0
Meeting Moths of the World, Unite! Russell Ball, January 1, 0001 …just do it over there and try to be quiet about it. I’ve got work to do. Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am not fond of meetings. I'd like to think that I have improved over the years, ... Meeting Moths of the World, Unite! 0 0 1
Old Company Getting Some Bad, Perhaps Wrong Press? Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 My old company Avanade is getting some really bad press, along with Accenture - Rocky Failed to Connect CSTARS... The only question, whose version of the truth do you want to believe? In the article you ... Old Company Getting Some Bad, Perhaps Wrong Press? 0 0 1
From The Australian - Apps on tap help consolidation Dave Caddick, January 1, 0001 Looks like Thinstall is strating to gain some support down in this neck of the woods? Apps on tap help consolidation Barbara Gengler | August 14, 2007 APPLICATION virtualisation products from Microsoft, ... From The Australian - Apps on tap help consolidation 0 0 0
Greenfield design - should you use Terminal Server/Citrix or VMwa... Dave Caddick, January 1, 0001 So…. Question? Would I use TS/Citrix or would I use VDI if I was building or designing the Front-Office of a Greenfield site today? This is a quite a hot topic, because as much as VDI/xDI/DDI is the latest ... Greenfield design - should you use Terminal Server/Citrix or VMwa... 0 0 7
If Book Publishers Were Smart 2... D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 My last post on this topic generated some great comments (and a nod on another blog). Justice Gray made an interesting point about the covers. He said: "Your comment on this book thing reminded me of a ... If Book Publishers Were Smart 2... 0 0 20
Feeling The Need For Agile Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I sat in a meeting today where a boat load of process documents were dumped on the team in the middle of an A&D phase which is already behind schedule. Now this wasn't to introduce us to new processes, ... Feeling The Need For Agile 0 0 0
Start your engines Steve Eadie, January 1, 0001 its here Grigori has just announced that the July drop of GAT/GAX has been released. So here's the highlights other than the usual bug fixes. Support for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 ... Start your engines 0 0 0
My End of Year Roadmap to Becoming a Better Person (and Developer... Rob, January 1, 0001 Recently I was tagged by Russ on the Justice Gray challenge. Personal Something I have been attempting over the last few years is to be healthier. What does that mean? Well for my wife and I that means ... My End of Year Roadmap to Becoming a Better Person (and Developer... 0 0 3
James Kovacs on Agile Development (and John Bristowe uses the wor... D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Check out "A talk with James Kovacs on Agile Development", a great little webcast from MSDN Canada's community initiative. You can watch it here. D ... James Kovacs on Agile Development (and John Bristowe uses the wor... 0 0 1
GAX 1.3 ready to ship - need input Steve Eadie, January 1, 0001 Grigori is looking for feedback on how the factory community uses GAT/GAX please help by filling in the short survey.... more details here ... GAX 1.3 ready to ship - need input 0 0 0
So you want to be a Project Manager? Scott Miller, January 1, 0001 CIO Magazine, by way of Slashdot, has an article on the state of IT projects. It compares the latest results of the famous/infamous Chaos Report from the Standish Group International with the results from ... So you want to be a Project Manager? 0 0 0
My Five Month Roadmap to Becoming a Better Developer Dru Sellers, January 1, 0001 So I have been tagged by Russ on the Justice Grey challenge. Well here it goes: Continue my Current Reading Habit - For the last two years I have been reading about one technology book a month and I plan ... My Five Month Roadmap to Becoming a Better Developer 0 0 3
Real world desktop WPF applications Tim Hibbard, January 1, 0001 The last month or so, I've been wallowing in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), trying to determine if it is the correct direction for our next version of our flagship software, ParaPlan. WPF is flashy ... Real world desktop WPF applications 0 0 3
A Pragmatic Approach to Software Development Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 On a recent ARCast Ron interviewed Jeffrey Palermo. The thing that really impressed me was that he really separated the Agile principles from implementation approaches. The fact that the goal is working ... A Pragmatic Approach to Software Development 0 0 0
TypedDataSets: so many moving parts Theo Moore, January 1, 0001 Spent several hours today trying to extend an existing typeddataset in VS 2005. I like typeddatasets for the most part, but they can be annoying with which to work. The one in question has about 50 tables ... TypedDataSets: so many moving parts 0 0 1
Informavore Trap # 2: Information Junk Food Russell Ball, January 1, 0001 This is a follow-up to my original post about cognitive traps that hinder learning and stunt professional growth. Information junk food refers to any information gathering activity that prematurely satisfies ... Informavore Trap # 2: Information Junk Food 0 0 0
How Right-Thinking Americans Should Pronounce "Agile" Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 On the anniversary of our nation's independence I call upon my U.S. citizens to throw off the shackles of our British oppressors and pronounce the word "agile" like true Americans: The pretentious un-American ... How Right-Thinking Americans Should Pronounce "Agile" 0 0 9
GAX 1.3 announced Steve Eadie, January 1, 0001 Grigori Melnik has announced the plans for GAX 1.3 here, thanks to Tom for the heads up on this announcement. At last I can talk about something I've known for a while ;) So really GAX 1.3 is the version ... GAX 1.3 announced 0 0 2
DDD5 - thanks to the organisers for another top event Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Saturday saw me off to Microsoft in Reading for DDD5. The first DDD where I didn't inflict myself on the delegates; unless you got caught in the taxi with me to and from the station. Not preparing any ... DDD5 - thanks to the organisers for another top event 0 0 1
Rally Agile Software Robert May, January 1, 0001 Previously, we'd been using a combination of Gemini and excel to manage our product. It was doing ok--generating burns in Excel was a pain, making things match Gemini was a pain, but at least something ... Rally Agile Software 0 0 2
How I didn't become a better developer George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 April 17th, 2007 is a day that has been burned into my mind. This is the day I was given a very serious task. This is the day I was branded with a mark. The mark is for a brotherhood. The task I was assigned ... How I didn't become a better developer 0 0 1
SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD2) FREE Registration - The 07/07/07 Eve... Mohamed Ahmed Meligy, January 1, 0001 Yesterday we started accepting FREE registration for the 2nd Demo Day. If you remember from the 1st one, Demo Day is an event we love to hold being our way to expose knowledge and most importantly excitement ... SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD2) FREE Registration - The 07/07/07 Eve... 0 0 0
What ever happened to that whooshing sound? Russell Ball, January 1, 0001 Someone sent me a great quote the other day from Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." It brought back distant memories of a gigantic ... What ever happened to that whooshing sound? 0 0 0
Australian Architecture Forum Chris Chan, January 1, 0001 On Friday 29th June I will be co-hosting a session on Agile Development at the Australian Architecture Forum in Melbourne, a unique cross-industry, cross-platform event. If you are interested in sharing ... Australian Architecture Forum 0 0 1
Tampa CodeCamp registration and call for speakers open still open Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Tampa .NET CodeCamp III opened for registration and speakers sign up. www.TampaCodeCamp.com Register here- http://www.tampacodecamp.co... We are actively seeking more speakers. You can get ... Tampa CodeCamp registration and call for speakers open still open 0 0 0
Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0 Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 eScrum: Agile Project Management Tool eScrum is an end-to-end Project management tool for Scrum. It is a web based tool built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) platform. Its components ... Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0 0 0 0
Traditional & Agile Software Development Methodologies Devin A. Rychetnik, January 1, 0001 Examples of Traditional Software Development Methodologies Waterfall http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.cs.umd.edu/class... Spiral http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ... Traditional & Agile Software Development Methodologies 0 0 3
Forget TCO, what it your applications "Current Cost of Developmen... Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I came across an article last night, discussing the value of agile engineering practices (continuous integration, paired programming, one touch deployment, and test driven design). In this article, the ... Forget TCO, what it your applications "Current Cost of Developmen... 0 0 0
TechEd 2007 Keynote Stream Chris Haaker, January 1, 0001 This is a raw and unedited stream of notes from the TechEd 2007 (via Virtual TechEd) keynote by Bob Muglia. This year's theme was Back to the Future. There were a couple of funny moments ... I am watching ... TechEd 2007 Keynote Stream 0 0 1
BIDSHelper v1.1 released Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 What!? I hear you say, where did 1.0 go? Did I miss it? No, unfortunately some of the version numbers got out of synch in the initial release. The .Addin file was reporting 0.9, but the assembly was reporting ... BIDSHelper v1.1 released 0 0 0
Roy Osherove Rocked Winnipeg .NET UG D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Roy Osherove did the final UG event of his Canadian tour tonight in Winnipeg, speaking to a very attentive crowd about Agile development. Roy had been talking at Dev Teach in Montreal last week, and had ... Roy Osherove Rocked Winnipeg .NET UG 0 0 0
Devteach 2007 - Day 1 Scott Muc, January 1, 0001 The Devteach conference has started, During breakfast I was seeing all the legends of the .Net world. It was pretty cool to be hanging out with the likes of Roy Osherove, Jeremy Miller, Jean-Paul Boodhoo, ... Devteach 2007 - Day 1 0 0 2
Mix 07 - Announcing Project Codename Astoria and Project Codename... Elisa Johnson, January 1, 0001 Today is the day! Today at Mix, my team is announcing two new incubation projects that we have been working on for the last few months. Both CTPs went live this morning and will be announced during our ... Mix 07 - Announcing Project Codename Astoria and Project Codename... 0 0 0
First look at Professional XNA Game Programming Book by Benjamin ... Brian Scarbeau, January 1, 0001 After waiting several months now, I finally got my hands on this new book. The author has a nice blog on game development and he has created a series of videos on game development in directx where he created ... First look at Professional XNA Game Programming Book by Benjamin ... 0 0 3
Open Source and the Gift Economy Sean Chambers, January 1, 0001 Jeff Atwood has an interesting post about Open Source Billionaires and why they aren't any. I find this topic very interesting as I always enjoy researching differences in open source vs. commercial software. ... Open Source and the Gift Economy 0 0 0
Ruby ruby ruby ruby! (on rails) Matt Roberts, January 1, 0001 I recently decided to play around a bit with Ruby on Rails, its had so much hype so I thought it would be interesting to see how it fares up against ASP.NET programming! Anyway, I'm only just starting ... Ruby ruby ruby ruby! (on rails) 0 0 2
Drinking & Drowning in TDD Prabhat Samuel, January 1, 0001 Test Driven Development: Testing methodology associated with Agile Programming in which every chunk of code is covered by unit tests, which must all pass all the time, in an effort to eliminate unit-level ... Drinking & Drowning in TDD 0 0 2
Global Warming is a Scam Robert May, January 1, 0001 I'm sure I'll receive at least one comment about my source for this, but the points that Steven Milloy makes are really quite good. The pattern of heating and cooling has been happening for the entire ... Global Warming is a Scam 0 0 13
What Is A Document Worth Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I have been working on a documentation improvement project for my current client. This, along with a post by Jeremy Miller got me thinking again about the worth of documentation. The client uses a predominantly ... What Is A Document Worth 0 0 2
ALT.NET Dru Sellers, January 1, 0001 What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies: You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best ... ALT.NET 0 0 0
The hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Brian Button writes on the hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager. It is, essentially, remembering to do nothing. Ok, not nothing, but having as little direct involvement in the team's progress ... The hardest part of being an Agile Project Manager 0 0 0
Buck Hodges : TFS tools on CodePlex (April '07) Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 While the TFS team didn't put everything into the 1st real release of TFS, they certaintly are getting tools/powertoys/helpers/gui... out there to the community in real time. Driven by the initial need ... Buck Hodges : TFS tools on CodePlex (April '07) 0 0 0
VersionOne Free 5 User Edition Scott Kuhl, January 1, 0001 Oooooooooooooo.... One of the big agile players is now affordable for the little guy. VersionOne has released V1: Agile Community which is a free 5-user version of V1: Agile Enterprise. It has all the ... VersionOne Free 5 User Edition 0 0 2
Eating my agile cake Lou Vega, January 1, 0001 I’ve always been a fan of agile methodologies – just as I’ve always dreaded process heavy projects…mostly that fear has come with good reason, i.e., the project I’m on right now that is a waterfall project ... Eating my agile cake 0 0 0
Invoking Web Service dynamically using HttpWebRequest Marcin Celej, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I needed to implement (quickly) a mechanism of dynamic invocation of a web service. I called a Web Service using HttpWebRequest and gathered the response stream. I didn't know the description ... Invoking Web Service dynamically using HttpWebRequest 0 0 39
NJUX Re-cap Chip Lemmon, January 1, 0001 The NJUX meeting was a great event. Thanks to everyone who turned out! A big lesson learned is that South Orange may not be the most ideal location to get to. We'll need to figure out a new location when ... NJUX Re-cap 0 0 2
Forget What the Media Tells You--Software is Hard Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Frederick P. Brooks, 1987: Not only are there no silver bullets now in view, the very nature of software makes it unlikely that there will be any—no inventions that will do for software productivity, reliability, ... Forget What the Media Tells You--Software is Hard 0 0 0
Duh? Kyle, January 1, 0001 For more than 5 years now, Apple has used buzzwords like "stylish", "sleek", "elegant" to stress the design of their products. I think that in the early 00's they realized that not only are people looking ... Duh? 0 0 1
My Resume Chris Falter, January 1, 0001 Overview Software Architect with 16 years of development experience using a myriad of technologies. Have exercised technical leadership in all stages of software lifecycle via collaboration with business ... My Resume 0 0 0