Update: I am stunned at the misinterpretation of this post. That’s what happens when you hit publish without sleeping on it, I suppose. What I hope you take away from this article is stated in the very last paragraph. After genuinely pursuing and advocating this whole Agile thing for the last 5 years, I must admit defeat and […]
Read MoreLast week Scott announced a Elegant Code Open Spaces Session. But why are we doing this? Obviously when answering this question I am speaking for myself and not necessarily the rest of the Elegant Coders…although who could possibly disagree with the constructed and reasonable argument that follows!? There are basically two reasons for me to […]
Read MoreIt seems that I managed to convince another one of my dear colleagues to start blogging (if my children thaught me one thing, it’s that constant whining actually works!). Peter Eysermans, a real genius and quite popular with the ladies, has started a blog. The Internet has been an insignificant piece of network until this […]
Read MoreFirst question: do you use FxCop? Do I…not really. But I try not to tell too many people that either. So there is a new tool out there for all of you who need help keeping your source code up to snuff, similar to what FxCop does for your API…just at the source code level. […]
Read MoreThis is my new-to-me 1973 Beetle. My wife and I decided to get an economy car to go along with the gas prices. I figured this was a great idea until I saw the price of a new sub-compact. What a better idea, though, than to get a car I can pay for with the […]
Read MoreIn many Agile development processes, there exists the idea of THE BACKLOG. This is particularly true in Scrum, the methodology that originated the idea. The recipe from Scrum is a Product Backlog which contains all the requirements or features desired in the software being created. The backlog items are organized in priority order, determined by […]
Read MoreAn interesting issue I’ve been trying to figure out lately, why is WPF so blasted slow on my laptop? How slow? It takes 90 seconds to open a Hello World WPF app. Heck, it takes 90 seconds to load a WPF window with no “Hello World” or anything else for that matter. But to make […]
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