I worked with a class of graduating seniors in the CIS program at Boise State University this last semester and really enjoyed the experience. The students were working on real projects with actual clients applying the skills they received throughout their program. I learned some things from the students and it was interesting to see […]
Read MorePoker Planning is a favorite technique of many people, including me. I like this technique of estimation because it lets us make estimates in relative terms. People are notoriously bad at absolute estimation of the “rank this item one to ten”, variety. Have you ever looked at the website HotOrNot.com? It turns out that pretty […]
Read MoreThis question keeps popping up around here (“around here” being the loose conglomeration that makes up the Elegant Code group). It isn’t easy to describe. And really, the notion of what constitutes elegance in code changes over time. There is no static “this is good code” test, and I doubt there ever will be. Plus, […]
Read MoreSo last night I had the opportunity to be the moderator at NetDug, we were talking about Unit Testing.? It was very interesting.? We had one of those nice mixes between people who had not done unit testing yet, to guys who knew way more about it than I do.? I went into the talk […]
Read MoreMany developers categorize themselves when describing their areas of passion or specialty. Often this sounds like, “I’m a data guy,” or “I like middleware.” Occasionally you hear a passion for user experience or UI expressed as, “I like making GUIs.” Most of us got into this business because we liked making computers do things we […]
Read MoreI’ve been moonlighting with the ASP.Net MVC framework lately. Not a lot, just enough to get acquainted for right now. Yesterday I had my “Road to Damascus” incident. I don’t know HTML. OK, not completely true, I know lots of html tags, table, ul, div, p, a, etc; and I know how to use them […]
Read MoreIf you aren’t familiar with the Widgets of Wisdom feature, see the explanation and disclaimer here. Address the unknown that the team identifies. If they don’t understand something in planning, clear it up before execution begins. Some architectural decision must be big and early. These are often based on business requirements, not technology. Java vs. […]
Read MoreIf you aren’t familiar with the Widgets of Wisdom feature, see the explanation and disclaimer here. Carry?a model at all times to express?your understanding to others. Look for patterns in all systems at all levels. Seeing them is the very essence of insight. At the application level, architecture and design are synonymous. “BizTalk is overkill” […]
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