I just did a 45 minute talk on Agile at the IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysts) monthly meeting. That was rather tough. No projector, but there was a whiteboard. I hit on iterative practices, embracing change, adaptive product definition, value flow, and risk mitigation. What points would you make to a group of Business […]
Read MoreWow, am I ever glad this is almost over. I thought with the release of Boot Camp 2.1 I wouldn’t have any problems installing Vista 64 on my 2007 MacBook. Think again. It was time to get past the 3G barrier of 32 bit Vista because I really need the VM capacity. If it weren’t […]
Read MoreI have had several discussions lately with people in the Boise area who are working in Agile software development environments and are looking for similarly situated to discuss things. These aren’t the kind of discussions that one finds amongst developers, but issues more typically suited to PMs, Managers, and Executives within the organization. Common questions […]
Read MoreWard Bell, VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade, talked to me at TechEd about DevForce, his company’s ORM product for .Net developers. It didn’t stop there. Ward dropped knowledge on??several other things including: Entity Framework Silverlight Designing for Testability Data access for RIAs and of course, qualities of Elegant Code. Download the episode MP3
Read MoreThis is a post I am writing on the Apple dashboard WordPress Dash widget for the OSX dashboard. It lets me use categories, but nothing terribly sophisticated, which is what the name implies. It is simply here to dash something off. Thing is, I simply cannot find a decent and FREE blog client for the […]
Read MoreWriting this book review feels kind of weird because it hasn’t actually hit the shelves yet. It is accessible however through the Manning Early Access Program. This book provides a clear insight of using NHibernate as the data access layer of your applications and beyond. The excessive amount of NHibernate features isn’t the only thing […]
Read MoreMicrosoft has embraced the idea of Application Lifecycle Management as a framework upon their software development tools can be positioned. This is a great notion, and one that will take several years of investment even from a company with as many resources as Microsoft. ALM is the enterprise software development holy grail that IBM sought […]
Read MoreI am a simple man. All I ever wanted was drag and drop for source control. That folder chooser dialog was a bear. Now we will get it with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Thank goodness. From the web site: Simplified the user experience through cleaner “Add to Source Control” dialogs, drag and drop support to […]
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