24 Sep
2008

Beware of slow descents into unmaintainability

I’ve actually been coding again recently which has been a pleasant change. Of course it’s pretty much impossible to balance this with my wider responsibilities of running operations but that’s another story…or perhaps more accurately another post. Over the past year I’ve become a huge fan of the DTO / Presentation Model approach for screens. […]

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27 May
2008

Bring a Friend (Why Have An Elegant Code Open Spaces Session?)

Last week Scott announced a Elegant Code Open Spaces Session. But why are we doing this? Obviously when answering this question I am speaking for myself and not necessarily the rest of the Elegant Coders…although who could possibly disagree with the constructed and reasonable argument that follows!? There are basically two reasons for me to […]

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22 Apr
2008

ALT.NET Seattle Recap

Time for the obligatory recap…finally! Before I left I wasn’t as pumped up about Seattle as I was for Austin in the fall. This is because my role has changed during the past 6 months and day to day development is very much a thing of the past for me. I suppose the real question […]

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