September 2012 - ElegantCode

25 Sep

2012

The Pyramid of Programmer Badassery

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

Listen to this episode of the Herding Code podcast to get the seeds of this conversation. Or scroll to the bottom and worship Cori Drew. @coridrew7h : @ElegantCoder <3 your "Hierarchy of Programmer Badassery" in @herdingcode150: People, Practices & Dev Tools @ElegantCoder7h : @coridrew @herdingcode 🙂 ha! it’s a real word. Somewhere. @coridrew5h : […]

17 Sep

2012

TFS bisect the manual way (When was that bug introduced?)

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: Bugs, New Post, TFS:

I?d like to share a powerful workflow I originally found using git and its powerful git-bisect command and how I?ve leveraged the idea when using TFS. What is a bisect on your source history? Git?s bisect command is extremely powerful and I won?t be covering it here. However git describes its feature as a way […]

13 Sep

2012

The Windows Calculator

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:6 Comments

So, I am sure we?ve all used this little utility, right? Ever click the menus? Please tell me I am not the only person who do not know this. How long has this been so awesome? It was in Win7, I checked.

12 Sep

2012

Visual Studio Launch Event–Seattle

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

These are notes from the launch event day. The “take a drink” word of the day? Continuous. General Stuff “Build, Measure, Learn,” is the new mantra. "The new WPF editor in VS is Blend in the background" Brian Harry Said We need to make deployment part of the standard development lifecycle. Modern apps need a […]

12 Sep

2012

Command Line Love 101

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:7 Comments

No, this isn?t about PowerShell. This is about the old Windows command line. You know, the one your dad uses. And me, too. Here?s how I set mine up. My Own bin I create a c:\tools\bin folder. This is where I keep all the custom stuff I want in my path. Stuff that I put […]

12 Sep

2012

Nancy 0.12 released!

By: Andreas Håkansson Category:UncategorizedTag: Announcement, Nancy:2 Comments

I am really happy to announce that we?ve released Nancy 0.12 into the ?public?. To be fair all of our work is always in the public, but now we?ve actually slapped a new version on it and put it up on Nuget for easy access! It took a bit longer than I would have liked, […]

10 Sep

2012

Prefer Integration Over Scrum of Scrums

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

A Scrum of Scrums (SoS) is what it sounds like: a meeting of Scrum Masters in which issues affecting more than one Development Team are coordinated. This technique has for years been used (and taught) as the primary communication technique for scaling Scrum across multiple Development Teams. Often, the Scrum of Scrums follows a similar […]

7 Sep

2012

David Starr on Herding Code

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I was recently fortunate enough to be included in a Herding Code episode. The subject matter sort of rambled, as some Herding Code episodes tend to do, but that’s the attraction! We touched a lot of ground and I really appreciate the show. It’s nice to be a guest on a show I listen to […]