Keeping Up (RSS)

This category is based on readings to keep up with the software industry. It will mostly be made up of short blurbs on topics here and there.
Monday, June 16, 2008 2:28 PM

KISS, DRY, SOC, YAGNI, TDD...

These are things to take to heart.  If you aren't thinking, acting, and implementing based on these you WILL have issues.  It will then lead to pulling your hair out (which I've already done), fussing, maybe screaming, being temperamental, getting
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:27 PM

Blogs, .NET Blogs, Blogging AAAGGGH!

I was talking with a co-worker recently.  He had stumbled onto Scott Hanselman's Blog.  We started talking about the major blogs that could/should/probably be read on a regular basis and what information they provide.  I came up with a
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:35 AM

Safari Becomes Browser of Choice, ReSharper 4 Still Not Out, BUT...

Why, because I'm going to buy an Apple.  Yeah, you heard me, I'm going get one.  Ok, so maybe that isn't a good reason why Safari is going to become the browser of choice.  However Jeff Lynch definitely lays out a few more legitimate reasons
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Monday, April 21, 2008 7:51 PM

Kanban Ninja!

So over the next few weeks and days I'll be pushing out a new development process, methodology and helping extensively with the consulting roles here at work.  My main goal is to make us FAST and to maintain quality and expand that.  One of
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:15 PM

DropThings ROCKS! If you haven't checked this out... do!

So I was finally getting back around to reading a few of the blogs that I do.  One of the blogs I check out semi-frequently is Brad Abrams.  I regret it has been so long because he has a few entries that are must reads.  The first is Framework
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:05 AM

A Renaming - Rogue, Mercenary?

I got to thinking about my work patterns and what I've been getting accomplished.  It far exceeds what I thought I would be remotely doing 10 years ago, even 5 years ago I've blown away my wildest "reasonable" expectations of the future.  In
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Monday, February 18, 2008 10:47 AM

Doing Things My Way

President's Day.  Not sure why their is a holiday for the Presidents but I really don't care, I have the day off!  George Washington is probably rolling in the grave realizing we've not heeded barely a single of his or the fore fathers warnings. 
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:02 AM

InfoQ and Agile Leading the Curve

I listened to the The Value of Agile Leadership to the Enterprise while working on getting prepared for some meetings this morning and checking e-mail.  Excellent speaking engagement with a lot of top notch guys;  Bud Phillips (Capital One Financial),
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Monday, December 10, 2007 11:05 AM

ASP.NET MVC Is Out!

For more check out the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:32 PM

Mr. Guthrie Rolls The .NET Road Map

I'm not even going to write much on this road map topic, I'm just looking forward to the ASP.NET MVC.  In almost every application I have lined up, even a lot of the prospective business intelligence work I have lined up this pattern architecture
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:52 AM

Entrepreneurial Stumptown Geek Meet #1

I strolled down today to meet everyone at the first Stumptown Coffee Meet of entrepreneurial geek types.  I didn't get to stay too long, but had a good time chit chatting and meeting everyone.  To all my readers, I would highly suggest swinging
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:53 AM

Martin Fowler, DSL, and the "Up and Up".

Martin Fowler is currently working on a book in reference to DSL, Domain Specific Languages.  A preview is available on his site. SOA Governance seems to be the debate of the century in the advanced development community. An interesting and scathing
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:59 PM

Visual Studio 2008 is Finally Installed!

I finally got Visual Studio 2008 installed and running after the little download debacle yesterday.  I loaded it on a virtual machine so it should be super easy to break things and just start clean.  My next moves will be to start playing around with
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:53 PM

Analysis Services Performance Testing and Artsy Things

I'm on a couple new quests as of this week.  One is to find a decent way to performance test SSAS without buying or putting in place large servers similar to what would be used in a production environment.  The second is to figure out how to have JavaScript
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:01 PM

VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Released, Hallelujah

Dibs to ScottGu of course.  It is released!
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