Microsoft s working on a new test tool. This one if for the people who you think of as testers, not the people MS calls “Software Engineers in Test.” The plain fact is that most testers I have known are technical power users with a nose for technology, but little in the way of programming […]
Read MoreJust another one of those tasks to go through with a new client, setting up source control. For small shops I’ve found the easiest way to get started is with Subversion. The biggest problem you encounter is how to get Subversion installed and setup the first time. I’ve finally found an install that takes all […]
Read MoreLogging isn’t exactly a hot topic, it is one of those after thought topics really. You have the software half way written, then you think: “I really should be put some logging in this”. Now what? Luckily there are a plethora of solutions: Log4Net, NLog, Microsoft Patterns & Practices Logging Application Block, and others. (Note […]
Read MoreHere I sit in the Overland Park Theater having been made aware that Windows Live Writer will not initialize until it can actually connect to your blog. This means that you need to be online in order to install and use it the first time. All of that means that I am writing in MS […]
Read MoreFor at least a day I completely failed to communicate with my office mate because we couldn’t get past some stupid vocabulary words. The battle of who owns the naming conventions on a technology can be very irritating. Just look at Inversion of Control vs. Dependency Injection for an example. Here’s what I got hung […]
Read MoreOK, sometimes you have an idea that is one point (seemingly) brilliant, simple, and kind of stupid all in one shot. This is one of those. Actually, I’m still trying to figure out if this is really a good idea or not — and what better way to do that than to post the idea […]
Read MoreOren posted a pattern for converting Domain entities to DTO’s using a delegate. He made a comment in his post: “I did try to make it into a framework, but even I can’t make it more complex than this.” I started laughing to myself because I actually tried something similar a few weeks ago, and […]
Read MorePoor backlog management can make a high performing, collocated team degenerate into a room of individuals who are just bugging each other. When a team is collocated in what is meant to be a collaborative workspace, any benefit that may be realized is completely negated if the team is not working on the same project. […]
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