You get to the end of your sprint and there is that are 2 incomplete stories left on the sprint backlog. Story A is judged to be 80% done, Story B was never even started. What do we do with these stories? Options: Give 80% of the point value of Story A to the team […]
Read MoreI’ve just came across the following quote from Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software that fully describes the point I tried to make in my previous post on “One-size-fits-all architectures” : Not every system needs to look like a three-tier application with an Oracle database. Learn many architectural styles, and select the best architecture […]
Read MoreBack to topics from the Elegant Code Open spaces lunch. And this was a doosy. We were talking about getting developers to embrace TDD in their development methodologies. As it so happened, one of the developers that need to be embraced was there — which always make for a more interesting discussion. His main argument […]
Read MoreToday at the MS campus we got to sit and play with a surface computer. It was neato. We used the maps to look up where we would go for dinner. We played goofy little games on it where you can throw things across the table to each other, like pictures and movies that are […]
Read MoreOK, so a few days ago, we at Elegant Code hosted an Open Spaces dinner. A question came up about what architecture we use for various projects — specifically Asp.Net WebForms. This sort of thing has been published by others, but I thought I would throw mine out there. Also note: this is where I […]
Read MoreI have been asked several times in the last few months about a basic set of tools for people wanting to start blogging. “What does it take to make it easy?” is usually how it goes. Regardless of what blog engine your server is running, or what platform it is running on, making the writing […]
Read MoreEver notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to June. June Cleaver is the classic enabler with a bad case of denial. So is the TFS Source Control Shelving feature. Don’t get […]
Read MoreSo you all know how it is, the build breaks and no one seems to know about it. “I didn’t see the email”…”My tray notifications aren’t working”…”I thought Elvis was going to fix it, he usually does”. Well no more! We received our stoplight today, and were going to get this sucker wired up to […]
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