2012 - Page 2 of 16 - ElegantCode

19 Oct

2012

A Thought on Starting and Growing Your Practice

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

There are many known models for growth. Apprentice/Journey/Master Su/Ha/Ri All essentially say this: Imitate to understand Experiment deliberately to find improvement Someday, maybe, perhaps (based on many variables) : Change the game Kent Beck said it like this, about XP. Do everything as written. After having done that, experiment with variations in the rules. Eventually, […]

13 Oct

2012

How do you know if you can take your open-source project to the next level?

By: Andreas Håkansson Category:UncategorizedTag: Nancy, rant:14 Comments

693 days ago (wow), just shy of two years, I typed git push upstream master into Git Bash and pushed out the first public code of Nancy. Since then, and thanks to the fantastic response that we given by the .NET community, it’s been what I’ve spent the majority of my personal coding time on. […]

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, […]