I have spent the past couple weeks holed up in a cave building a web site using the latest ASP.NET MVC framework. I am behind on blogging, responding to emails, and keeping up with my RSS feeds. I am making good progress with ASP.NET’s MVC framework and enjoying the development experience, despite the occasional beta [...]

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I finally got some time to look into Rhino Mocks 3.5 to see what is new.  Lets say there are some interesting extensions to the library.  OK, that was a bad pun that you probably didn’t get.  A series of new extension methods were added.  Lets take a look.
Here is the list of some of [...]

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In case you have not seen any of these videos of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on Stage talking about our industry past, present and future.  A fascinating discussion.
Paraphrasing a classic comment from Gates.  We want a computer in every home.  We never thought about the fact that we would have to be a BIG [...]

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Some time ago Patrick Smacchia wrote a nice article on his blog about active conventions on your code base. I thought I tried this for myself and made up some interesting CQL queries.
Suppose we want to enforce a BDD naming convention for every SetUp method. Such methods should be named Establish_context. The following CQL constraint [...]

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You have to hand it to these people: they sure have to put up with a lot of crap. I’m also guilty as charged for this. I already wrote about a lack of real-world usability and best practices in the past.
You probably heard about the ADO.NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. The moment [...]

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Some of us here in the Treasure Valley have decided to start a Boise chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. This is a group of people passionate about Agile and sharing experiences and best practices with each other.
From the APLN website:
APLN was founded in 2004 by a group of people who are active in [...]

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Interesting article on MSN on Bill Gates and how his foundation is changing philanthropy today.  He will give away more money then Rockefeller did at the beginning of the century.  How will this change education and medicine in the next few years?  For example the Gates foundation is:
“..a foundation whose combined assets will one day [...]

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I have just been accused of cheating at last week’s sprint review. Let’s see what you think.
The way our sprint reviews work, everyone in the company gets to rotate between teams who show their work in 15 minute segments. Picture a science fair with parents moving between booths and spending 15 minutes at each one. [...]

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