I haven’t really gotten caught up in the delicious, Technorati, or the whole Portmanteau scene. I must be getting old, because much of what the web 2.0 offers just seems like a remix of golden oldies to me. That said, my most valued technical RSS feed I have aggregated is just such an RSS mashup. DotNetKicks is a predictably […]
Read MoreAfter receiving Scrum Master training from Jeff Sutherland, our team has undergone some significant changes in both organizational structure and process improvement. Much of this change is directly influenced by the advice and instruction provided by Jeff, including applying Scrum beyond the borders of our software development teams. Scrum provides a model for scaling up in an organization […]
Read MoreI have just finished reading The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky. If you don’t know Spolsky, his writings can be found at Joel on Software, which is considered by many to be one of the great sources of wisdom in the software development industry. Although Joel is a great writer, he certainly […]
Read MoreYou think Google Groups get noisy? I just signed up for my 3rd grader’s classroom newsletter via email and I swear I have never seen so much spam. The moms of the children in this class are planning a Halloween party via email. I have a thread 16 emails long containing entire paragraphs related solely to candy […]
Read MoreI am writing a little off-the-clock code for a dasBlog macro to manage books that I read. I decided to use TDD for this project, using VS2005 and the MS unit testing framework. Much needless heartburn has been had debating the nature of TDD and how it is exactly performed. The primary debate has been whether […]
Read MoreOur team has been using pseudo-scrum for approximately 1 year, and real scrum for approximately 3 months. Jeff Sutherland gave us “real” Scrum with Scrum Master training for many of the people on our team. Jeff’s training smoothed our daily routine by providing guidance on the devil-in-the-details issues that we used to get stuck on. Scrum Really Works Our productivity is […]
Read MoreCode Camps have gotten frustratingly little press lately. These grass roots gatherings are the open source of technical conferences, and have accordingly little fanfare. but remain the best free training opportunity available for developers. The rub is simple; You have to be passionate enough about tech to actually spend time on a weekend (gasp) honing your […]
Read MoreThank you, Google. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The Google Groups UI is somewhat lacking when compared to the stellar examples of Web 2.0 usability that Google produces. For example, GMail is so effective at representing email threads that I now resent the MS Outlook’s lack of this feature. The new Google Groups UI makes use […]
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