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11 Jul

2011

Pluralcast 46 : Keith Brown on RavenDB

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

Listen 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 […]

9 Jul

2011

Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer

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

In my continuing saga of seeing metaphor in every conversation with my house painter, Danny, I bring you another tale that proves we software developers are not alone. In addition to painting the house, I asked Danny’s crew to build a set of stairs off on side of my front porch. This morning, Danny showed […]

7 Jul

2011

Joey, the ElegantCode Apprentice

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:10 Comments

I recently received an email from Jose Samonte, a developer in the Philippines. Here is the text of that email: Please pardon me for my unsolicited email, but I believe that you are one of the best in the software community. My name is Joey Samonte, and I’m a C# programmer from the Philippines, but […]

6 Jul

2011

When an Estimate is a Promise

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:25 Comments

I am having my house painted this week. It really needs it, after 10 years. We waited too long as it is. I chose the painter based on a conversation with him in which I could see that he took pride in his work and would do a good job. I saw him paint a […]

27 Jun

2011

Pluralcast 45 : Mario Cardinal on Agile Architecture

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

Listen to this episode [38:51] Mario Cardinal spends a lot of time thinking through the nuances of system architecture and agile software development. He joins us on the Pluralcast to talk about his ideas around agile architectures and tracing system architecture back into requirements. Mario is a Microsoft ALM MVP, host of the Visual Studio […]

18 Jun

2011

Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository.

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:9 Comments

I was doing some basic Git training for a customer this past week and they asked about how to setup their repositories to push/pull from a network share. I thought it would be simple and we spent a few minutes in class trying to accomplish it. We stopped trying in class and I took it […]

13 Jun

2011

Pluralcast 44 : Joe Hummel on High Performance Computing

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

Listen to this episode! [47:20] Although writing code for multi-core is a great step for most of us, Dr. Joe has been living life with thousands of cores for a long time. In this episode Joe introduces us to life in real high performance environments. Dr. Joe Hummel Joe is an author, consultant and tenured […]

7 Jun

2011

The Complexity of How

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

I have been spending a lot of time lately trying to genuinely grok subtleties of Scrum and Kanban. The interesting things are those right in front of your face that seem so innocuous at first glance. Like the thing I noted on the train as I traveled by from Brussels to Amsterdam a few weeks […]