Aside from reading books and attending community groups, one of the best things a developer can do improve their skills is read other peoples code. I have many projects on my machine that I check out and study any chance I get. Every time I poke around these repositories, I always come away inspired. (though […]
Read MoreThis delightful post from Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin describes with much better sentences what I was trying to express with my latest post Professional Under Pressure. When it comes to code, it never pays to rush. I also need to get myself one of those talking green wrist bands for Christmas :-).
Read MoreWhen looking at FinalBuilder and Team Foundation Build side by side, the obvious breakdown in features and advantages looks like this. Team Foundation Build provides a complete build solution with easy integration to other components of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System. Here is a set of features that detail what integration really […]
Read MoreMicrosoft has certainly been ratcheting up the community involvement over the last few years. In a down economy like this one, free training opportunities suddenly take on even more significance. Local user groups, Code Camps, product release events, and occasional "just because" events all provide opportunities to get together with local developers and maybe add […]
Read MoreIf you exchange email with me on a regular basis, you know that I am the king of email faux pas. I regularly do things like this: Use CNTRL+Enter to send an email sooner than I really want to send it. Send emails that are missing attachments. Send from my work account when I meant […]
Read MoreI just read the following post by Robert C. Martin. In it, he says the following: If you can enumerate the states, and events, then you know the number of paths through the system. So if Given/When/Then statements are truly nothing more than state transitions, all we need to do is enumerate the number of […]
Read MoreA first delivery of our current project is going into production very soon. The team has worked hard and is still working very hard to straighten out the last issues. As with every delivery, pressure always rises a tiny bit. This is were the men are separated from the boys. We have all been in […]
Read MoreThis morning, I spent the first 30 minutes of my day figuring out why the CI build failed after I checked in some changes to the code. No big deal, right? I just messed up. Turns out that I didn’t screw up the code but TFS did. Before committing the code to the source repository, […]
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