Ever noticed how Visual Studio can be painfully slow when it comes to working with big solutions? It starts using large amounts of RAM, building the project takes way too long, and with practically every change you make it has to rebuild a lot of the projects in the solution which can waste a tremendous […]
Read MoreOdds are you have used code Chris Tavares had a hand in delivering. Chris is the lead developer on Enterprise Library within Microsoft P&P and he had everything to do with shipping Unity, the IoC container. Chris was good enough to talk to Jarod Ferguson, Scott Nichols, and me about Unity, P&P, and Enterprise Library. […]
Read MoreThis is a rant. Not an angry rant, not bemused, or disappointed. This is just a rant. This is a rant against all of the people who say: “Don’t do that, the junior developers will never understand it”. For this rant I’m looking at my own current and former managers, friends of mine, Billy Hollis, […]
Read MoreI’m always teasing the geek for looking like a doofus with his phone clipped to his belt. It’s sort of the modern day version of a pocket protector. A phone clipped to the belt ups the geek factor exponentially. The handiness of the phone on the belt was proven to me today. It all became […]
Read MoreIn the 2005 movie, Kinky Boots, shoe maker and factory owner Charles Price visits one of his customers who has begun buying fewer shoes. Shoe Store Owner: "Look at these shoes I can get from Taiwan. They are 1/2 the price I pay for your shoes and I can sell them for the same price." […]
Read MoreI recently had to go through the process of installing Visual Studio 2008 with a team getting ready to use Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. Further, I have been tinkering with Silverlight 2 recently and this has even more tooling around it. Based on this experience, I thought I would outline the […]
Read MoreI just read this post from Mohammad Azam about a project that was impossible to do using Agile practices. I quote: A reasonable deadline for the project was approximately 3 months but it had to be completed in a month. At this time an agile book will indicate that the developer should talk to the […]
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