A while back I posted about following the NuGet feed via an RSS reader. For some strange reason I?ve been reviewing this feed since then on an almost daily basis in my RSS reader. Throughout that time I?ve kept a small list of what I think are interesting projects that have put out a release […]
Read MoreIn the previous post I provided a short introduction to Express, a web development framework built on top of connect that is heavily inspired by Sinatra. For this post we?ll dive into a couple of styles for dealing with routes in Express. Express simply uses HTTP verbs for its routing API. // Index app.get(‘/runs’, function(request, […]
Read MoreI’ve been working on a free-to-play MMO which has been “officially” live since last April, and things have been going well – a steady growth of players; the game itself has been well-received, and all the important graphs are “up and to the right.” Part of my job involves detecting problems before they become serious […]
Read MoreFor your consideration, a paper written by Victor Basili and Albert Turner, Iterative Enhancement : A Practical Technique for Software Development. They make some very good points about iterative feature development, some of which I’d like to call out in this post. Here are some quotes from the paper for your consideration. Quote 1 Building […]
Read MoreWhat I’m talking about here are two styles of development. And this isn’t an “us vs. them”, this is a “me, myself, I and all of yall”. We all use both of these patterns in developing code, and will even switch patterns in the same product from feature to feature. Anyway, here are your definitions: […]
Read MoreToday the PM of a project I am working on sent an email with a small list of issues that we needed to get resolved before shipping an early build to the customer for a weekly review. In his list of issues MY NAME was tagged next to a feature that I KNOW was working. […]
Read MoreLast night Ben Hall blogged about how he managed to get Nancy running on Heroku. It’s still an early experiment, and totally unsupported by Heroku itself, but it is very interesting to say the least. In essence this means that it might be possible to run any Mono compliant (really guys, you need to pay […]
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