Feeling a bit inspired by the recent DirectTV commericals I figured it’s about time to apply the same rational thought patterns to the waterfall methodology. When have a deadline approaching, you work all night. When you work all night, you don’t get enough…
As a culture we are highly focused on results and less so on the path to the result. You can see this mentality throughout our laws. For example given two drunk drivers going home, the first driver gets caught and…
I have used SpecFlow with both WatiN and Selenium to do testing in .NET before, and after some work and a bit of frustration I was finally able to get some productivity from them. Lately playing around with node.js for…
I recently decided to take WinRT (javascript edition) for a spin but instead of using the built-in libraries from MS I wanted to see what tools I could reuse (jQuery, backbone.js, etc..). I have become somewhat of a CoffeeScript addict…
If you love JavaScript but hate the bitter aftertaste when you look back at it and its sea of brackets and functions, then you owe it to yourself to try a unique blend called CoffeeScript. It’s easy to learn and immediately rewarding, you…
Today we have short Q&A about agile practices with out esteemed guests Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Jr, Gandhi, Bruce Lee, & Franklin D. Roosevelt. Question: Why do you believe there is benefits in building…
A common phrase around our shop and one that I try to follow is to “Do the simplest thing that works”. It sounds like a simple thing to follow but to me it more accurately means, provide the simplest solution…
Scenario 1 – You approach a 4 way stop sign, with exceptional visibility in all directions. You have to decide if you will roll through the stop sign, or be a ‘good driver’ and come to a full stop. Since…
Engaged in an agile software project you can find yourself fighting, nearly daily, a customer asking for guarantees about what you are building. They want to know: Everything you plan to build How you plan to build it How long…
You have ideas and beliefs on how software should be developed and you spend hours a week researching the newest development practices, going to conferences/user groups to hear experts talk about a subject that challenges what you thought you knew….
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