I just did a 45 minute talk on Agile at the IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysts) monthly meeting. That was rather tough. No projector, but there was a whiteboard. I hit on iterative practices, embracing change, adaptive product definition, value flow, and risk mitigation. What points would you make to a group of Business […]
Read MoreWriting this book review feels kind of weird because it hasn’t actually hit the shelves yet. It is accessible however through the Manning Early Access Program. This book provides a clear insight of using NHibernate as the data access layer of your applications and beyond. The excessive amount of NHibernate features isn’t the only thing […]
Read MoreAs a youngster in church, my friends and I would survive boring sermons by making a search game out of the hymn book, writing (for example) “go to page 433” on a randomly-selected page. On page 433 was inscribed “go to page 22”, and so on, thus creating links ad nauseam. I had the unpleasant […]
Read MoreCode Camp 2008 was such a fun event we just couldn’t wait to get started planning for next year! We have already worked with BSU to confirm the date of March 28th, 2009. Things will look a little different next year as we try to broaden both our focus of subject matter and our impact […]
Read MoreI have recently started a new job and needed to go through my stack of software books looking for ones that might be helpful. I ran across a book I read many years ago that has probably helped me more that any other book with project management. This book is not a software book though. […]
Read MoreNo more living life dangerously with beta versions and release candidates. You can now get the real thing.http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Read MoreI found myself eating lunch with a group that included Jeffrey Pallermo one day at Tech Ed. We were discussing our favorite sessions at the conference and I noted my interest in the new TFS Scrum process template from Conchango and the electronic Scrum board they will soon be bringing to market. I actually posted […]
Read MoreLast week Scott announced a Elegant Code Open Spaces Session. But why are we doing this? Obviously when answering this question I am speaking for myself and not necessarily the rest of the Elegant Coders…although who could possibly disagree with the constructed and reasonable argument that follows!? There are basically two reasons for me to […]
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