I have spent the last few weeks getting my development machine(s) up and and going like I really want them to be. I absolutely loathe setting up a new computer / dev environment because there is so much tweaking to be done. So in keeping with Butter’s March theme, I am going to talk about […]
Read MoreA few days ago, I started development on a new project and I am using it to learn some new things. I have been working with Visual Studio Team System 2008 + ReSharper exclusively for awhile now, and I want to try some other tools. Even though learning some new tools and coding practices was […]
Read MoreIf you can see this, I am blogging for Elegant Code. This is awesome for me and I am totally excited and honored! For those who don’t know me, I am a .NET developer at an investment company in Tacoma, WA. I participate in the Seattle ALT.NET and try to go to local user groups, […]
Read MoreI have been playing with BDD conventions for several days and while I am no expert, I genuinely enjoy the way this style forces me to consider design before creating code. I have tried to catch up on all the BDD purse fights going on out there and I understand that there are passionate differences […]
Read MoreI made brief mention of a technical book exchange in a previous post. I have had several inquiries in comments, email, and Twitter asking for more details on this idea. To be clear, this does not yet exist, but what about it? Would you be interested in a technical book exchange? How might it work? […]
Read MoreAt the higher levels of discourse on the subject of Scrum, there is a raging debate on whether Scrum is good, bad, has outlived in applicability, or is the answer to all the world’s ills. As sometimes occurs, I had an aha moment on the subject that others haven’t really embraced. In this case, it […]
Read MoreI’ve been playing with this Fluent NHibernate a bit lately. This is a 3rd party open source library for configuring NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate is a new way tell NHibernate how to map tables and columns to classes and properties. It does this with a .Net based DSL. Like everyone else I’ve had my share of […]
Read More"If something is happening that you can’t explain then 9 times out of 10 it’s because you’re an idiot". And if during said head scratching you get your shoe laces caught in the rollers of your chair it’s probably time to call it a day.
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