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Jul
2007
MS BizTalk Roadmap Updated
Microsoft has updated the BizTalk Product Roadmap with features we will see in 2006R2 to be released in October. Additionally, they provide insight into later releases with particular attention paid to enabling BizTalk to truly lead as the central hub of SOA in the enterprise space. Additionally, registration is now open on the MS SOA and Business Practices […]
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Jul
2007
Behave#
I have watched the evolution of Joe Ocampo‘s requirements testing framework with eager anticipation. As most who have tried to use it know, Fitnesse just doesn’t quite hit the mark for expressing requirements into tests and Joe’s work is a promising bridge for that gap. This post gives the best intro into the basic idea […]
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Jul
2007
Jeff Sutherland Visits Again
One year ago Jeff Sutherland came to our company and certified 20 of us as Scrum Masters. We have had an amazing year of progress following that original training and have spread Scrum throughout the organization. Scrum is now the standard way we get things done as an organization. Last night Jeff arrived in Boise […]
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Jul
2007
Anticipating Complexity
Building abstraction layers into your application is a good thing, right? By the way, building only enough software to deliver to requirements provides the highest value. Also, make sure that when you add functionality to your application, it doesn’t require a code change. But don’t try to predict the future uses of your application because […]
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Jul
2007
Including Tests into the Original Assembly
I am working on a project in which I am diligently applying TDD. I am enjoying the process of actually driving my design with tests, as it as clearly saved my bacon already with discovering bugs in my class constructors. I am using ReSharper’s NUnit support + Matt Berther’s excellent TDD Live Templates over MSUnit, which is […]
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Jul
2007
The Mysterious System.Guid
I have some objects I am serializing that have an ID property. The ID property is a GUID and I got to looking at the nature of the System.Guid class during this project. I gots me some questions. Constructor Madness Why is there a default constructor AND a static creator? Both of the following code […]
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Jul
2007
Confusing Tactics and Strategy : An Agile Antipattern
One highly touted benefit of Scrum and iterative development techniques is the speed with which teams can re-focus. I have seen teams successfully transition to a dramatically different projects over 2 workdays at an iteration boundary. Using the natural heartbeat of iteration boundaries allows teams to move between radically different projects and codebases with lower disruption costs. The Entropic […]
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