ElegantCode

A software blog

13 Oct
2012

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

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. […]

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25 Sep
2012

The Pyramid of Programmer Badassery

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 : […]

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12 Sep
2012

Visual Studio Launch Event–Seattle

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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 […]

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10 Sep
2012

Prefer Integration Over Scrum of Scrums

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 […]

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