For most all games and activities, rules are published and considered separately from strategy. For example, the rules of chess say nothing about the various strategies that have evolved for playing the game; so should it be for the rule book of Scrum. With this distinction in mind I am proud to have been working […]
Read MoreToday I am happy to announce that I have accepted a position at Scrum.org, working with the good folks there in pursuit of Scrum.org’s mission, Improving the Profession of Software Development. I have worked on several projects with Ken Schwaber and Alex Armstrong in the past few years, and I am delighted to be joining […]
Read MoreBackground In my previous job, I spent all my development time in a Linux environment. Was rather impressed at how much could get done at the command line, and how efficient some of those tasks became. My next job was based on Windows and mostly the Microsoft stack of development tools. This meant I pretty […]
Read MoreMy friend, former colleague, and fellow Elegant Coder, Cory Isakson, has graciously allowed me to open source his .NET oEmbed library. Cory and I have been using this library for about two years, and a derivative of the library has been in production at an internet media company for nearly as long. The library is […]
Read MoreIt?s been a while since I blogged about any updates to the StatLight project and even though people are saying ?SilverLight?s dead? I?d have to say there?s been more community contribution in the last few months to the project than there?s ever been. What is StatLight? For those of you who don?t know, it?s a […]
Read MoreFor this blog post we?re going to continue where we previously left off, talking a bit more about functions in CoffeeScript. Let?s get things started by talking a bit about function scope. Function scope Like Ruby, CoffeeScript uses lexical scope. This means that a variable that is declared inside a function is invisible to outside […]
Read More(Cross posted from my personal blog) It has been quite a bit of work and a learning experience, but today my course on iOS development for .NET developers course was published on Pluralsight! This course was designed to help someone that is familiar with .NET get up to speed and start building an iOS application […]
Read MoreListen to this Episode! [38:52] Pluralsight?s Chief Technology Officer, Keith Brown, tells about his experience using RavenDB for storage on the back end of Pluralsight.com. Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he oversees the developer security curriculum, which has an impact across all of Pluralsight’s course offerings. Keith spends most of his time researching […]
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