PrairieDevCon – Slide Decks Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 PrairieDevCon 2010 was an awesome time. Learned a lot, and had some amazing conversations. You guys even managed to convince me that NoSQL databases might actually be useful after all. For those interested ... PrairieDevCon – Slide Decks 0 0 0
GuestPost: Announcing gmStudio V9.85 for VB6/ASP/COM re-engineeri... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Mark Juras of GreatMigrations.com kindly sent me an article on gmStudio which I have posted on my old VB focused goto100 site. gmStudio is a programmable VB6/ASP/COM re-engineering tool that enables an ... GuestPost: Announcing gmStudio V9.85 for VB6/ASP/COM re-engineeri... 0 0 0
Merging Waterfall and Agile – Getting the Worst of Both Worlds Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Many people have seen and appreciate the elegance and practicality of agile methodologies. Sadly there is still not widespread adoption. There is still push back from many directions and from many different ... Merging Waterfall and Agile – Getting the Worst of Both Worlds 0 0 1
Performing a clean database creation using msbuild Robert May, January 1, 0001 So I’m taking a break from writing about other Agile stuff for a post. :) I’m still going to get back to the other subjects, but this is fun too. Something I’ve done quite a bit of is MSBuild and CI work. ... Performing a clean database creation using msbuild 0 0 1
Agile Like Jazz Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 (I’ve been sitting on this for a week or so now, thinking that it needed to be tightened up a bit to make it less rambling. Since that’s clearly not going to happen, reader beware!) I had the privilege ... Agile Like Jazz 0 0 2
New London based .NET User Group – first meeting June 2nd o... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 A new .NET User Group is starting up in Canary Wharf - CWDNUG. It plans to focus on technology for financial services such as: WPF & Silverlight. F# & other alternative languages. High volume systems ... New London based .NET User Group – first meeting June 2nd o... 0 0 0
Agile Documentation Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 We all know that one of the premises of the agile manifesto is to value Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation. This is a wonderful idea and it takes a tremendous burden off of project implementations. ... Agile Documentation 0 0 0
MVC Portable Area Modules *Without* MasterPages Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Portable Areas from MvcContrib provide a great way to build modular and composite applications on top of MVC. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute MVC binary components as simple .NET assemblies ... MVC Portable Area Modules *Without* MasterPages 0 0 6
Who Makes a Good Product Owner Robert May, January 1, 0001 In general, the best product owners are those that care passionately about the customer of the product. Note that I didn’t say about the product itself. Actually, people that only care about the product, ... Who Makes a Good Product Owner 0 0 2
The Product Owner Robert May, January 1, 0001 In a previous post, I outlined the rules of Scrum. This post details one of those rules. Picking a most important part of Scrum is difficult. All of the rules are required, but if there were one rule that ... The Product Owner 0 0 1
Cowboy Agile? Robert May, January 1, 0001 In a previous post, I outlined the rules of Scrum. This post details one of those rules. I’ve often heard similar phrases around Scrum that clue me in to someone who doesn’t understand Scrum. The phrases ... Cowboy Agile? 0 0 1
Agile Awakenings and the Rules of Agile Robert May, January 1, 0001 For those that care, you can read my history of management and technology to understand why I think I’m qualified to talk about this at all. It’s boring, so feel free to skip it. Awakenings I first started ... Agile Awakenings and the Rules of Agile 0 0 0
My History with Agile Robert May, January 1, 0001 I’m going to write my history with Agile here. That way, in future posts, I can refer back to it, instead of typing it out in the post that contains information you may actually want to read. Note that ... My History with Agile 0 0 1
MIA Robert May, January 1, 0001 So, I’ve been missing in action on this blog for quite some time. I need to rectify that. Part of the reason I’ve been absent is because I haven’t be able to talk about what I’m working on. A former client ... MIA 0 0 1
Business Choices and Evony Robert May, January 1, 0001 Recently, I’ve been playing a game called Evony, and I finally decided to quit the game and thought I should warn others who might be tempted. I also find a lot of insight with this game as an example. ... Business Choices and Evony 0 0 1
New Geek! digitaldias, January 1, 0001 Hi everyone! New geek on the block, treat me gently :) My main focus will be developing WPF, Silverlight and SharePoint (2010) solutions with TDD and agile methods. New Geek! 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 -- #848 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Viktor Larsson, Mike Snow(-2-), Jeff Brand, Marlon Grech(-2-, -3-), Jonathan van de Veen, Phil Middlemiss. Shoutout: Justin Angel wants everyone to know he is Joining the Vertigo Team!... ... Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 -- #848 0 0 0
Complimentary Refills onefloridacoder, January 1, 0001 My son and I were out to dinner and right after we sat down, he combs the menu to locate the soda selection. Then he looks up at me and says “Looks like we get free refills here, sweet!” While we were ... Complimentary Refills 0 0 1
Executable Resumes Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Over the past twelve months I have been thinking a lot about executable specifications. Long considered the holy grail of agile software development, executable specifications means expressing a program’s ... Executable Resumes 0 0 1
Enterprise Library 5.0 Released… Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 The announcement is up here: http://blogs.msdn.com/agile... Some of the things on the list of what’s new & improved 1. Redesign of the ... Enterprise Library 5.0 Released… 0 0 2
What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Getting my geek on… I have decided to call the products VS.10 (Visual Studio 2010), TP.10 (Test Professional 2010), and TFS.10 (Team Foundation Server 2010) Thanks Neno Loje. What's new in Visual Studio ... What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? 0 0 0
Craftsmanship Tour Day 1: Didit Long Island Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 On Monday I was at Didit for my first ever craftsmanship visit. Didit seem to occupy a good part of a non-descript building in Rockville Centre Long Island. Since I had arrived early from Seattle I had ... Craftsmanship Tour Day 1: Didit Long Island 0 0 0
Log Debug Messages without Debug Serial on Shipped Device Kate Moss' Open Space, January 1, 0001 Debug message is one of the ancient but useful way for problem resolving. Message is redirected to PB if KITL is enabled otherwise it goes to default debug port, usually a serial port on most of the platform ... Log Debug Messages without Debug Serial on Shipped Device 0 0 0
Kanban Tools Review GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 The first two sessions on Sunday were Collaboration and why it is so hard and the following, which was a perfect following session was on Kanban. While in that second session two online Saas Style Tools ... Kanban Tools Review 0 0 3
#altnetseattle – Collaboration, Why is it so hard! GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 The session convened and we began a discussion about why collaboration is so hard. To work together in software better us engineers have to overcome traditional software approaches (silos of work) and ... #altnetseattle – Collaboration, Why is it so hard! 0 0 0
IASA ITARC – Denver May 6th Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 The Denver chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is holding an IT Architect Regional Conference (ITARC) in Denver on May 6th. The speaker list for this conference is amazing. ... IASA ITARC – Denver May 6th 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2010 -- #827 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Hassan, Viktor Larsson, Fons Sonnemans, Jim McCurdy, Scott Marlowe, Mike Taulty, Brad Abrams, Jesse Liberty, Scott Barnes, Christopher Bennage, and John Papa and Ward Bell. ... Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2010 -- #827 0 0 0
BizTalk ESB Toolkit: Core Components and Examples Rajesh Charagandla, January 1, 0001 The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 provides a stable and powerful platform for services that can change as fast as your business needs. The main purpose of an enterprise service bus (ESB) to is to provide a common ... BizTalk ESB Toolkit: Core Components and Examples 0 0 0
Guidance and Pricing for MSDN 2010 John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Sorry for the rather lengthy post here. I get asked this all the time so I decided to post it…Visual Studio 2010 editions will be available on April 12, 2010. Product Features Professional with MSDN Essentials ... Guidance and Pricing for MSDN 2010 0 0 6
Kansas City .NET UG March Meeting – Tonight!!!! John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Meeting tonight!!! Food! Great giveaways including a full license of Infragistics for a year! See you there!! Meeting for March 23rd, 2010 WHERE: Centriq Training, 8700 State Line Road, Leawood, KS (Click ... Kansas City .NET UG March Meeting – Tonight!!!! 0 0 20
Managed Service Architectures Part I barryoreilly, January 1, 0001 Instead of thinking about service oriented architecture, a concept that is continually defined, redefined, abused and mistreated, perhaps it is time to drop the acronym and consider what we actually need ... Managed Service Architectures Part I 0 0 0
March 2010 Chicago Architects Group Wrap Up Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I would like to thank everyone who came out to last night’s event and especially thank Mike Vogt for the presentation. I think at first everyone glassed over since very few of us spend a lot of time with ... March 2010 Chicago Architects Group Wrap Up 0 0 1
Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 van, January 1, 0001 Topic: nServiceBus is mature and powerful open source framework that enables to design robust, scalable, message-based, service-oriented architectures. Latest improvements in the configuration API enables ... Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 0 0 0
Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 - For the record Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 - For the recordAt SSW we have always done Agile. Recently we have started doing Scrum and we have nearly completed our first Sprint ever using Scrum. As you probably ... Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 - For the record 0 0 0
Topeka Dot Net User Group (DNUG) Meeting – April 6, 2010 Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Topeka DNUG is free for anyone to attend! Mark your calendars now! SPEAKER: Troy Tuttle is a self-described pragmatic agilist, and Kanban practitioner, with more than a decade of experience in delivering ... Topeka Dot Net User Group (DNUG) Meeting – April 6, 2010 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 -- #812 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Viktor Larsson, Bill Reiss(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jobi Joy, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, and Mark Miller. Shoutouts: Going to MIX10? John Papa announced ... Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 -- #812 0 0 0
Little PM side post... edgaralgernon, January 1, 0001 When adding new team memebers... off set the ramp up time by 1) having pre built machines ready and and easy method of getting the lastest tools, code base etc. I'm fortunate enough to be at a client that ... Little PM side post... 0 0 0
Does Test Driven Development (TDD) improve Quality and Correctnes... David V. Corbin, January 1, 0001 Since the dawn of the computer age, various methodologies have been introduced to improve quality and reduce cost. In this posting, I will by sharing my experiences with Test Driven Development; both its ... Does Test Driven Development (TDD) improve Quality and Correctnes... 0 0 0
Agile Manifesto, Revisited GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 Again, conversations give me a zillion things to write about. The recent conversation that has cropped up again is my various viewpoints of the Agile Manifesto. Not all the processes that came after the ... Agile Manifesto, Revisited 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 -- #810 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola, SilverLaw, Gill Cleeren, Jim Wightman and Jeremy Likness, Viktor Larsson(-2-), and Walter Ferrari. Shoutouts: Viktor Larsson ... Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 -- #810 0 0 0
Agile Development James Oloo Onyango, January 1, 0001 Alot of literature has and is being written about agile developement and its surrounding philosophies. In my quest to find the best way to express the importance of agile methodologies, i have found Robert ... Agile Development 0 0 1
Agile Training in Austin nbecker, January 1, 0001 For anyone interested in some really all-encompassing agile training in the Austin area, there’s a fantastic one coming up from March 24-26th at Headspring. All the topic details, schedule and registration ... Agile Training in Austin 0 0 2
Pluralsight On-Demand Training library Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: General Pluralsight is an online .NET Training library which provides online training materials for .NET developers. Example trainings available on demand: · .NET 3.5 · Agile Team Practices ... Pluralsight On-Demand Training library 0 0 0
Personal Kanban Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I’ve been finding myself working on too many things at once to be effective. Things get 80% finished and then either forgotten until an external stimulus reminds me to complete it or languish far longer ... Personal Kanban 0 0 0
Kissy Poo Post-Mortem – Looking back at making an Xbox LIVE... George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 A short while ago I became a REAL game developer with the release of an XBLIG I helped create called “Kissy Poo”. Overall this game has been a huge success. It has far exceeded my original expectations ... Kissy Poo Post-Mortem – Looking back at making an Xbox LIVE... 0 0 148
Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with Dan Rigsby Dane Morgridge, January 1, 0001 Episode 3 of the Community Megaphone Podcast is now up with special guest Dan Rigsby from Indianapolis, IN and you get it on http://www.communitymegapho... Dan talked to Andrew and I about a ... Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with Dan Rigsby 0 0 0
Prairie Developer Conference: Post Conference Workshop with Donal... D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Note: Re-posted from the Prairie Developer Conference blog. The Prairie Developer Conference is pleased to announce that Microsoft MVP, author, and consultant Donald Belchamwill be leading a one day workshop ... Prairie Developer Conference: Post Conference Workshop with Donal... 0 0 0
Learning to use slim instead of fit to run FitNesse Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 In our new project, we've decided to use FitNesse with slilm. All in all, slim is an improvement over fit. The thing I like most is the error messages when running tests. These are now much clearer than ... Learning to use slim instead of fit to run FitNesse 0 0 0
SBUG Webcast Available for Download Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 We recently had a webcast at SBUG where Hans Hanston from Agile Point demonstrated a little about their BPM product and how it could be used to create a composited solution integrating sharepoint and SAP. ... SBUG Webcast Available for Download 0 0 2
CodeMash 2.0.1.0. Hey, it’s a beta finally! alexmoore, January 1, 0001 So there is this meme going around about people posting their CodeMash schedules, so I thought I would be a sheep and do the same. Primary Secondary Wednesday AM Practical B/TDD (Phil Japikse) PM Competency ... CodeMash 2.0.1.0. Hey, it’s a beta finally! 0 0 0