Regarding Elegant Code, I have been an Absent Product Owner lately. Here’s why: My 15 Year Wedding AnniversaryAs of yesterday, my wife and I have been married 15 years. I still marvel that an obstinate geek like me landed such a marvelous woman. She cannot even figure out how to turn on a computer, makes the […]
Read MoreI have been looking for a solution to file sharing with my wife for several weeks. Particularly I wanted her to be able to review and comment on some Word files. Also, I wanted to make some PDF file available for public access. I tried several services including Google Docs (I didn’t want to lose […]
Read MoreA crying child is a very common occurrence in my life. My 4 children range in age from 10 to 6. I know. I am better at math now, but back to the crying child. One of the first things I learned when a screaming child comes running to me is exactly how to triage the situation. […]
Read MoreIf you aren’t familiar with the Widgets of Wisdom feature, see the explanation and disclaimer here. A mock is a stub with assertions Strive for black box unit tests, not testing beyond the interface boundary is ideal. Known Agile smell: Preferring practices over values. Agile is like Churchhill’s democracy, the worst possible solution until compared to […]
Read MoreHave you noticed your estimation meetings lasting hours with only a few items estimated? Do you think it is impossible to get an estimated backlog with 3 months of work in it? Hey, developers. It’s called an estimate. No one is going to stab you if you if it isn’t perfect. You won’t even be […]
Read MoreHumble Beginnings In researching technologies for dynamic form presentation, I came across the lonely and sad story of XForms. XForms is a sad little technology that once had a great future and was full of hope and aspirations. The basic idea was that I can build rich form functionality, including some processing logic, using XML tags […]
Read MoreI am currently casting about for at open source web portal frameworks written in .Net. I would like my first concern to be the architecture of the UI plug-in modules, security providers, and data models. Unfortunately, it looks like my first concern must first be the license model of the software. To be fair, I am looking […]
Read MoreI scribble little sayings, quotes, statistics, and notes on paper pads all through my day. I collect these great little nuggets and keep them on scraps of paper forever, it seems. I never know what do do with all of these little pearls so that they might be recorded for posterity, so to keep them […]
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