This episode is a recording I made during my talk at the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago. The session, ?Agile for Families, Iterating with Children?, was surprisingly popular. In addition to the slides and the audio, I am including a link to the IEEE paper that went along with this session. That?s right! There is […]
Read MoreThe venerable Jeremy Miller joined us to talk about YAIJMOSP (Yet Another Impressive Jeremy Miller Open Source Project). This week?s Jeremy project is Story Teller. Jeremy?s other contributions to the community include StructureMap and an obtuse fascination with separation patterns for user interfaces. Story Teller is an alternative for Fitnesse, implemented in .NET and chases […]
Read MoreI am sitting in Sam Guckenheimer’s talk at the Agile 2009 conference entitled, “Agile in the Impossibly Large – Experiences in Microsoft Developer Division.” Sam is effectively the product owner for Team System and an avid Agilista. He has been sharing experiences in Agility from DevDiv for years and freely publishes stats on Microsoft’s teams. […]
Read MoreOK, on a previous post I had a little bit of code with a ?var? statement in it. Actually, there were a few other items in there, couple of lambdas, lots of nested ?if?s, etc. There was a lot of good hand wrangling on how performant the Lambda ?Where? function is. According to the comments, […]
Read More?The taste of Bacon is the taste of Freedom.? — unknown I hope you read that in Leonard Nimoy?s voice, from his work on Civilization IV. ?Our scientists have unlocked the secrets of Bacon! Now we can cook bacon!? So after attempting to cook bacon in carbon dioxide, the next logical step was to […]
Read MoreThere was a recent brouhaha on Twitter and in some blogs about the appropriateness of Team System in small teams. The gist of the discussion was simply that there are a lot of alternatives to TFS and VSTS tooling and many of them come cheaper out of the box. In many cases, free! Duh. I […]
Read MoreNOTE: this is the same post from a week ago, but now I added in performance times from actual devices. 1. Palm Treo 750 (300 Mhz) 2. Palm Treo Pro (600 Mhz) 3. HP iPAQ hw6945 (416 Mhz) – oldest device First change for the previous listings: cpu is not everything. The iPAQ has a […]
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were to cook bacon in an oxygen-poor environment? Would the bacon taste any different for it? Is oxygen a requirement for good bacon? Let?s say you wanted to build a robot to cook bacon, unattended. You don?t want this robot to burn the house down, as that would be less […]
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