Do any of you have twitch words? Words that set you off? If someone says that particular word, you go into attach mode. I do. For me, that word is “always”. Case in point, if you are writing a user story use the word “always”, I’ll make sure you have a bad time. I wont […]
Read MoreElegant Code readers know I have used agile practices with my kids and family for years now. I even write and speak about it occasionally. Here are some past articles on the subject, and one podcast. Fast forward to yesterday?s article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, ?Run Your Family Like a Business? by Bruce […]
Read MoreWhat is the most far out thing you’ve done in a CI build? I got this note through my Inbox today: I have configured the Gated build agent to: Run CodeAnalysis Treat CodeAnalysis Warnings as Errors Treat StyleCop Warnings as Errors Run Validate Architecture I could quibble about my wishy-washy opinions of gated check in, […]
Read MoreI recently started playing with AngularJS. After downloading the seed project and trying to run the tests with Testacular, I bumped into small issue that was not immediately obvious to resolve. When I ran the “./scripts/test.bat” I would get the following error(s) in my console: info: Testacular server started at http://localhost:9876/ info (launcher): Starting browser […]
Read MoreIn know I just posted my slides, but then I remembered that my jefe specifically asked me to share trip reports, which is a great idea. I wrote this and thought I may as well share it on ElegantCode, too. All, I recently attended the CodeMash conference for the second time in as many years. […]
Read MoreLast Tuesday Alexei Govorine and I presented a 1 day pre-conference workshop at 2013 CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio. Realizing Agility with Scrum and Visual Studio 2012 It was a great day with plenty of attendee participation and engagement. We visited Scrum and Agile practices, specifically looking at how to use Visual Studio and TFS […]
Read MoreThis is a total layman?s review of these phones. If you want tech specs and the complete rundown to the pixel level, go to CNET. Through a twist of fate, I came to have 2 brand spanking new Windows 8 phones at the same time. With 1 SIM, I could just flip back and forth […]
Read MoreMy team is building some new awesomeness for Visual Studio and having fun conversations along the way. Here is the latest thing we are tossing about and we would like your help in thinking it through. A given class may be referenced many ways in code. Not all of those ways are things we think […]
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