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16 Jan

2012

Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental

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

For your consideration, a paper written by Victor Basili and Albert Turner, Iterative Enhancement : A Practical Technique for Software Development. They make some very good points about iterative feature development, some of which I’d like to call out in this post. Here are some quotes from the paper for your consideration. Quote 1 Building […]

16 Jan

2012

Marines vs. Boy Scouts

By: Chris Brandsma Category:General PostTag: New Post:4 Comments

What I’m talking about here are two styles of development. And this isn’t an “us vs. them”, this is a “me, myself, I and all of yall”. We all use both of these patterns in developing code, and will even switch patterns in the same product from feature to feature. Anyway, here are your definitions: […]

6 Jan

2012

You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it…

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

Today the PM of a project I am working on sent an email with a small list of issues that we needed to get resolved before shipping an early build to the customer for a weekly review. In his list of issues MY NAME was tagged next to a feature that I KNOW was working. […]

31 Dec

2011

StatLight v1.6 is Out

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Get The Build What is StatLight? In short, it allows you to run your Silverlight tests on a Continuous Integration server or alongside your daily development. Fore more information go check out the project site http://statlight.codeplex.com Some ramblings (about the project). It’s funny how the release cycle of this open source project has turned out. […]

30 Dec

2011

Retrospective of 2011, Looking Ahead to 2012

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Yep, that time of the year again. Shiny new calendars and the accompanying festivities are upon us again. I can?t get rid of the feeling that every year passes by a lot faster than the year before. This year was definitely not an exception in that regard and I?m afraid that things are not going […]

4 Nov

2011

Agile with Children Update

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:8 Comments

As some ElegantCode readers and most visitors to my home know, our family uses methods learned in agile practices to manage day to day operations. Specifically, we have a ?family method? for doing things like homework, chores, and even longer term projects like preparing a research paper. As is the case with most children, 3 […]

22 Oct

2011

Excited to Announce My New Career Opportunity

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:4 Comments

I have lots of bittersweet and mushy things to say about my previous employer of 5 years, however I’ll spare you from all that. Last Monday (10/17/2011) I started my first official day with (That’s Vertigo) I’m really looking forward to working with the many great people at Vertigo and all the interesting projects that […]

14 Oct

2011

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago, I ran into this website from Eric S. Raymond, the author of the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. There’s a recording of a great presentation that anyone involved with software development, and especially open-source, should listen to. I highly recommended that you download this recording and at the very […]