This is what happened in the first week spent at home of Davie-O’s self employment: 1) Davie-O had to ask me when the last time he took a shower was. AND 2) He spent a day wearing THIS, and singing “I’m Hot Like A Biscuit” to the tune of “In A Gada Davida”. I […]
Read MoreI know that there are numerous blog posts already written about this topic, but I just can’t resist. I’ve just had it with commented-out code. Sure, everybody agrees that this is evil in it’s purest form, but why do I still have to endure so much commented-out code. It’s bad for my heart. Don’t trust […]
Read MoreI just finished reading Release It!. I know that Ayende is really fond of this book, and I can’t blame him. Like most books I’ve read over the last couple of years, this book is not about the technology -du-jour. It’s about how to design and build software that stays up-and-running in a production environment. […]
Read MoreYou get to the end of your sprint and there is that are 2 incomplete stories left on the sprint backlog. Story A is judged to be 80% done, Story B was never even started. What do we do with these stories? Options: Give 80% of the point value of Story A to the team […]
Read MoreI’ve just came across the following quote from Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software that fully describes the point I tried to make in my previous post on “One-size-fits-all architectures” : Not every system needs to look like a three-tier application with an Oracle database. Learn many architectural styles, and select the best architecture […]
Read MoreBack to topics from the Elegant Code Open spaces lunch. And this was a doosy. We were talking about getting developers to embrace TDD in their development methodologies. As it so happened, one of the developers that need to be embraced was there — which always make for a more interesting discussion. His main argument […]
Read MoreToday at the MS campus we got to sit and play with a surface computer. It was neato. We used the maps to look up where we would go for dinner. We played goofy little games on it where you can throw things across the table to each other, like pictures and movies that are […]
Read MoreOK, so a few days ago, we at Elegant Code hosted an Open Spaces dinner. A question came up about what architecture we use for various projects — specifically Asp.Net WebForms. This sort of thing has been published by others, but I thought I would throw mine out there. Also note: this is where I […]
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