At the higher levels of discourse on the subject of Scrum, there is a raging debate on whether Scrum is good, bad, has outlived in applicability, or is the answer to all the world’s ills. As sometimes occurs, I had an aha moment on the subject that others haven’t really embraced. In this case, it […]
Read MoreI’ve been playing with this Fluent NHibernate a bit lately. This is a 3rd party open source library for configuring NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate is a new way tell NHibernate how to map tables and columns to classes and properties. It does this with a .Net based DSL. Like everyone else I’ve had my share of […]
Read MoreThe Shade Tree Developer joined Elegant Coders Jan Van Ryswyck and Chris Brandsma to talk about several of his current projects. StructureMap is an open source Inversion of Control tool for .NET primarily maintained and developed by Jeremy and Joshua Flanagan with other contributions from the community. This is a great conversation about StructureMap, ASP.NET […]
Read More"If something is happening that you can’t explain then 9 times out of 10 it’s because you’re an idiot". And if during said head scratching you get your shoe laces caught in the rollers of your chair it’s probably time to call it a day.
Read MoreBy doing. It is as simple as that. Books I can?t go to sleep unless I have read for 30 minutes or so first, but I typically don?t read technical books during this time. I have been carrying technical books to my kid?s wrestling practice, though and I do a LOT of reading on meet […]
Read MoreHey, that’s a really cool trick, returning a context specific object with clever names on it. Sometimes it even makes sense when I read it. More often than not, though, it doesn’t. The problem is the developer who wrote the fluent interface is fluent in the underlying things being abstracted and the developer consuming the […]
Read MoreElegant Code Cast listeners, I need your help. We have worked out a nice arrangement with the organizers of the Agile 2009 conference to speak often with conference organizers and Agile luminaries. This will augment (not replace) our standard shows as the year goes on and hopefully we’ll all learn some new things by stepping […]
Read MoreTamara Sulaiman is the Stage Producer for Distributed Agile at the 2009 conference in Chicago. She joined David Starr to talk about effective practices in distributed Agile software development teams. Tamara shares some great experiences with teams striving to be effective and Agile while not sharing a team room together. Tamara is Managing Consultant at […]
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