I went to a concert last week at The Big Easy. I won’t tell you what band, but let it suffice to say that I was one of the older patrons in attendance. There was A LOT of teen angst going on, and most of the male audience members had on both more eyeliner and […]
Read MoreI’m doing a gig for a local company (a non-software company) that is trying to build a development team. My job is two-fold: 1. help them get some software up and started so they have something to build on, 2. train their current staff (consisting of one developer) on good patterns and practices for software […]
Read MoreI have a lot of conversations in which people use words like Beta, Alpha, and Prototype. Often there are different ideas about the definitions of these terms within the group pf people having the conversation and this can lead to confusion down the road. This has been confusing enough that I decided to take some […]
Read MoreLet my start by saying this is not a huge Annoyance. This is more of a “winy girl who didn’t get to go to Miami” annoyance. There is a perfectly good solution to this, it just isn’t the solution with the syntax that I want. That, and I feel like wining. The crux of the […]
Read MoreAgainst my better judgement, I welcome Elegant Code’s newest contributor, my wife, Eleanor. Elle has a successful blog of her own over at DomesticOblivion.com and the woman is just a flat out funny and good writer. She will add a note of humanity to Elegant Code with occasional articles about what it is like for […]
Read MoreWe recently implemented the Validation Bundle from P&P. The Bundle consists of the VAB PropertyProxyValidator from EntLib, as well as a custom ASP.NET AJAX control extender which provides the client callback support. For the most part the Bundle rocks, but there are a few things which didn’t meet our needs: The default PropertyProxyValidator inherits from […]
Read MoreThere has been some interest (two people) in updating my Rhino Mocks presentation and re-publishing it. This is from a presentation that I gave for the West Michigan Day of .Net back in May 2007 (ages ago). This presentation consists of a Power Point deck with minimal slides (it was for a code camp) and […]
Read MoreLooking at the following graph, how many story points should the team pull into their next iteration? Click the image to make it bigger. There are several schools of thought on this. Mike Cohn refers to 2 different types of iteration planning: Commitment based planning and Velocity based planning. Velocity Based Iteration Planning Velocity based […]
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