July 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:40 PM

Application Brainstorming

Here's one of the first brainstorming diagrams I've come up with.  It's a break out of transportation modes.  I wonder if I've missed any?  Each mode is broken out to the amount of persons the respective mode can carry.  This information
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:46 PM

The Project I've Been Planning

So I've been planning to start a project on the side, just for fun, that I could really showcase some of my interests and skills all at the same time.  In other words, from a high level, all the way down to the nitty gritty example, build a fully
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:16 AM

Software Fuctoring

Project Manager Definitions from Sedition.com The important ones: scope creep    hostile feature negotiation. slippage    retaliation. ...and the scary events of a software project. Some of the key scary elements
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Friday, July 27, 2007 11:15 AM

Check In the freaking code!!!??!!

I was pondering recently the various methods a team could go about assuring good check ins into source control.  I would assume that much of a check in, build, and source repository's tasks can be automated.  Continuous build integration is
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Friday, July 27, 2007 9:25 AM

Re-revisited SCRUM, Because it's still a Foreign Concept

The other entry on the topic of scrum statii meetings n such. It is tough, I will admit, after the business sector (and Government, but I'm not even going to broach that topic) has spent hundreds of years having meetings that generally last about an
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:04 PM

CodePlex, Open Sources, Permissive Licenses, Progress Indicator, Google Analytics... and more!

I was catching up recently on blog entries and these tidbits stuck out at me as important! ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:49 AM

DSDM and Recent Listens on InfoQ

On the InfoQ site today I've taken a listen to the "Agile Styles: Lean and DSDM" by Jean Tabaka.  DSDM was introduced by a group in Britain.  Jean gives a decription of where it came from.  Then the meat of the topic is brought up. DSDM
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:55 AM

Life Without ReSharper

Recently "foobar" left a comment that I'm over-relying on ReSharper.  I kind of see that idea as refusing to use utencils because they might contaminate the food.  In reality all one needs to do is make sure they control the utensils appropriately
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:39 PM

What I'm Doing to be a Better Developer

I've been doing some CAB & MVP/C work for almost a year now on and off.  With that I've gone digging for a lot of related topics.  One blog that I stumble onto regularly, and also have book marked now, is Jeremy Miller's Blog.  Recently
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:22 PM

An Early Work Flow Story

October 2003 I sat one day, arriving a few minutes early, at 7:48am.  I'd spent the last few days tearing through tons of code and schema designs.  I finally was at a point where the product was working.  I looked across to my fellow
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:20 AM

Meeting Etiquette

One of the things I really got ingrained in my habit while working at Bank of America was the respect of other people's time.  Especially in fast moving projects this is a very important thing to practice.  While working at BoA one
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Saturday, July 14, 2007 4:54 PM

Use Cases :: UML :: Getting System Requirements

In many ways describing what is and is not an actor is best left to project specifics and personal experience.  Below I've outlined a good rule to follow when trying to figure out if a "thing" is an actor or not in a use case.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:27 AM

Vista More Secure than Linux?

Sometimes I hate stupid statements like that.  More secure than "what" Linux is what I'd like to know. But to the point, some articles printed that I picked up from Steven Smith's entry on the topic. Usage stats of operating systems 90 day report
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:40 PM

Database Standards

I've been on a run about coding standards lately, reading about them, figuring out which to follow and which to not follow.  Well one thing I had not been looking at much was database standards.  I realized I had a bunch of questions; 
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Friday, July 06, 2007 1:11 AM

Coding Tools Conflict With Old Coding Standards

WARNING:  This is not a jab at Lowy's Standards, I'm just picking on his stuff.    So don't take it to heart, it's just code.  So I've been creating tips o' the day recently and I started reading through some of Juval Lowy's C# Coding
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:06 AM

More Tools! (That I forgot in the other post.)

Recently I made a post about tools you just have to use (at least after you've used them just once!).  Well there where a few that I had neglected to mention and a few I just stumbled back upon after realizing I had not installed them
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Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:41 PM

Stored Procedures and Property Resets :: Tip O' The Day

Tip #1 As of a recent task I've had to go through and reset hundreds (literally, no exaggeration) of properties on some Infragistics Controls.  If you've ever worked with them you know how many properties and nested properties these controls have! 
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