Download the MP3 The esteemed Mr. Laribee was good enough to join Jarod Ferguson and me on this episode of the Elegant Code Cast where we discussed Lean and Kanban. This is a great conversation and a must listen for folks looking to take their high-functioning Agile team to the next level. Kanban! ?? David […]
Read MoreI’ve been playing around with StructureMap for the last couple of days and I must say that I’m really impressed. I had no troubles in quickly getting up to speed with this amazing IoC container. Jeremy claims that StructureMap is actually one of the first IoC containers in the .NET space. Although it has been […]
Read MoreI spent a day at Devoxx (formerly known as Javapolis) this week, and one of the presentations i saw was about common performance anti-patterns, given by Alois Reitbauer from DynaTrace. While i didn’t really hear anything new during the presentation, i did kinda like how the speaker stressed that while premature optimization is indeed evil, […]
Read MoreThis is Jason who is continuing to masquerade as a guest. I’m going to let you into a dirty little secret…I’ve written a lot of SQL during my career. This admission almost sounds like heresay in these days of DDD, BDD etc. but it’s still an incredibly useful skill to have. Anyway a lot of […]
Read MoreAutomate, automate, automate. Why are you running manual tests? Automate them. If you are running manual tests, that is the smell of technical debt. Technical debt, I say! Automate them. If you can’t automate your tests, that is the smell of tightly coupled design and a failure to separate concerns in your application. Automate. And […]
Read MoreOne of the games we like here at Chez Star is the Pick A Number game. Pick a number between one and ten, between one and twenty, between one and one hundred. Definitely not rocket science, but we’re interacting and not watching TV, and sometimes it’s the best we can come up with. Last night’s […]
Read MoreI recently received the opportunity to reinstall my operating system on my work laptop. Good times, completely hosed. So I thought I would take a moment to document what went back onto my laptop after the format and reinstall. Essentially, this is my productivity tools list. Operating system Windows Vista. I’ll take some flack for […]
Read MorePatrick Smacchia wrote an excellent post on how you should partition your code in multiple assemblies. Because this is one of those subjects that i’m pretty opinionated about, i figured i’d quickly recap the valid and invalid reasons for creating assemblies that Patrick highlighted. Valid reasons for creating a new assembly: Tier separation: separating the […]
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