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 […]
Read MoreI wrote some articles on Scrum and agile for MSDN recently. The articles are now live and I hope they prove useful for you. Thanks to Gregg Boer for the opportunity to get these released on MSDN! The Lean of Scrum Inspect the inherent Lean qualities of the Scrum framework along with various ways to […]
Read MoreUpdate: Microsoft has since posted an update to .NET Framework 4.5 which resolves this issue. For more information, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2748645 The other week I got around to installing Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 RTM bits on my machine – thought it was about time that I made the switch. Though after the installation […]
Read MoreHave you heard about Windows 8 Unleashed yet? “Windows 8 Unleashed” is a series of FREE events run by your local community friends and leaders, and are great whether you are an experienced .NET developer, or even if you are just getting started. I am excited to announce that Boise will be hosting its very […]
Read MoreDid that get your attention? Good. I took my open-source baby steps with Codeplex and after about a year or two I discovered GitHub and I?ve literally not looked back since. So today I set out to send a pull request for a project that is hosted on Codeplex and I was amazed how alienated […]
Read MoreAt first I was a bit skeptical whether I should spend time listening to the audio version of this book. I?ve heard and read both great things as well as bad things about the book. A few people recommended it, while a couple of others discouraged me from reading it. But after getting through only […]
Read MoreI am delighted to announce I am joining Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in Visual Studio ALM. This comes after long discussions with many great thinkers at Microsoft about the future of agility, software development, and the tooling that can best support it. I am honored to have been selected to join the Visual […]
Read MoreThe last couple of weeks I?ve been playing with a load testing tool called Blitz. You can create a free account which provides you the ability to ?rush? your web application with 250 concurrent users (or less) for 1 minute. And of course, you can increase both the number of concurrent users as well as […]
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