11 Apr
2010

Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology

  Listen to this episode! [41:37] In this episode, I visited with several women who shared their stories of simply being women in our field. Meagon Marshall Meagon Marshall is the Director of Marketing for Pluralsight. Meagon focuses on market strategy & execution, public relations, community & partner building to evangelize Pluralsight training within the […]

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9 Apr
2010

Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action

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Earlier this week I finished reading ASP.NET MVC in Action written by Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard.  I came across several good reviews about this book so I finally decided to give a read.  This book is not just about the API?s of the ASP.NET MVC framework but also about good design principles […]

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1 Apr
2010

Social Media as a Software Development Tool?

One thing about software development I have always struggled with is inter-team communication. As I develop, I am often thinking things like “I need to make sure I tell Elvis I moved this method” or “The team is really going to like the reduced friction of this new implementation”. I have used various methodologies to […]

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1 Apr
2010

Visual Studio: Open in Full XAML View by Default

So I am using Visual Studio 2008 for developing WPF and Silverlight applications.  The one thing that really annoys me is when I open a .XAML file and then Visual Studio automatically opens the file in split view mode.  I am sure you are well aware of how VS 2008 support for the preview pane […]

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29 Mar
2010

Pluralcast #12 : The Future of Scrum with Ken Schwaber

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Listen to this episode! [48:05] In this episode, we take a look at Scrum by speaking with Ken Schwaber. In this open and frank conversation, Ken and I discuss several things including: The founding and future of Scrum.org Ken’s departure from the Scrum Alliance The Professional Scrum Developer program from Scrum.org and Microsoft Some explicit […]

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