Ever notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to June. June Cleaver is the classic enabler with a bad case of denial. So is the TFS Source Control Shelving feature. Don’t get […]
Read MoreSo you all know how it is, the build breaks and no one seems to know about it. “I didn’t see the email”…”My tray notifications aren’t working”…”I thought Elvis was going to fix it, he usually does”. Well no more! We received our stoplight today, and were going to get this sucker wired up to […]
Read MoreOf course, I am not the first person to do this, but gosh, isn?t it cool? This is the test suite from a project I am working on and I decided to move the BDD naming convention into the syntax: (class name) + (method name) = behavioral sentence This library has 100% code coverage and […]
Read MoreMy geek asked me to help him with a seemingly simple task. “Will you help me get a new cell phone?” Seems simple enough. Fairly straight forward. How hard could it be? An hour at the cell phone shop, sign a few papers, hand over the credit card, and ta-da!, you’ve got a new phone. […]
Read MoreEarlier this week I went back to work after a refreshing (and very much needed) vacation. During this past week I participated in some interesting discussions that made me think about software engineering and our craft in general. I want to share some of my thoughts, so here goes … Design == Code In my […]
Read MoreAfter leaving my day job (today was my last day), I needed a new phone. I have been through several and ended up with the iPhone. I am enjoying talking about it in first person. “iPhone is really useable.” “iPhone’s browser is great.” “Twitterific on iPhone is cool.” “I can listen to Pandora on iPhone.” […]
Read MoreLast night we had a nice turnout (a bit small, but that just makes things cozy…right?) Topics discussed: WPF’ing in WinForms *dealing with namespace collisions *loading Xaml via code *load/save with XamlWriter and XamlReader *InkCanvas control for free hand drawing *Images in WPF and persistence issues with XamlWriter JQuery : […]
Read MoreI was recently presented a rather interesting question, ?Are our products technically current?? The easy answer is to look at something like whether or not our web applications will run on the latest version of IIS and whether or not our applications perform properly under the latest browser versions. That?s the easy way out though. […]
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