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  • Are You Playing Checker or Chess? - YAGNI Revisited

    This past Saturday I had an early morning coffee with a friend. He’s an entrepreneurial type – a big thinker who moves at a fast pace and is always thinking ahead.  One question he asked of me, “Are you playing checkers or chess?”. The question was asked around business and career but I could not...
    Posted to Tim Barcz by Tim Barcz on 03-15-2010
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  • Visions of Software Development or Can’t We Just All Get Along?

    I’m currently reading Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles . As the title suggests, it deals with certain fundamental differences in the way we see the world and how that affects our political views. Don’t worry, I’m not going to delve into politics in the...
    Posted to Christopher Bennage by Christopher Bennage on 01-12-2010
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  • Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt?

    This past week I was taking a look at one of our build scripts as it appeared to be taking a bit longer than everyone wanted. Because I am very close to the file (authored about 50% of it) I decided that in place of just diving in and looking at the raw source I would instead run the script with the...
    Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 11-20-2009
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  • Simple Kick Start Example using MEF (Preview 8)

    If your application needs extension points what do you do? Building a plugin based system is not cutting edge, it is not rocket science.  However, it does take a little effort and can be a bit painful depending on your implementation.  The guys at MS (Glen Block and crew) has been working on...
    Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 10-27-2009
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  • IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban!

    FuncWorks, LLC ’s first XNA game, IncaBlocks , is now available on Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG)! This game represents the many hours and weekends Dylan , Cicelie and myself worked the past several months. Looking back at SVN, I started this as a side project to ROCS around July 30th. Shortly thereafter...
    Posted to ViNull, Off the Record by Michael C. Neel on 10-14-2009
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  • Testing only the code of value

    I am 99% sure I have had a post like this in the past, but my google-foo was weak today and I could not find it.  Do not let anyone blow smoke up your back side, testing is expensive, testing takes time but most importantly testing can help improve the quality of your code. If you are going to spend...
    Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 10-07-2009
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  • Ship Software With Value

    The blogosphere has gone a bit crazy the last few days with posts responding to Joel Spolsky’s latest article about "The Duct Tape Programmer" . Bloggers everywhere are tossing their two cents in and saying what parts of Joel's post was good and what wasn't good. Once noticeable trend...
    Posted to Tim Barcz by Tim Barcz on 09-29-2009
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  • Ship it, or Ship Out

    Joel , in his inimitable way, posted the flame bait of all flame bait posts yesterday , explaining the role of the Duct Tape Programmer. To my surprise, the Twitterverse started to reverberate with commentary, but weirdly, almost all of it was very negative about the post, many claiming that Joel was...
    Posted to Jak Charlton - Insane World by Jak Charlton on 09-25-2009
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  • Being a Duct Tape Programmer

    Things I’ve said in a session before: “Friends don’t let friends ORM” “ORM is a pattern, not a framework” “I like typed datasets, and I cannot lie” It’s not that I’m anti-ORM, or believe popular ones like NHibernate, Linq2Sql, and EF are useless...
    Posted to ViNull, Off the Record by Michael C. Neel on 09-24-2009
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  • Your unit test may smell if…….!

    If you find yourself using reflection in your unit test to push 'stub’ data into it your test just may smell.  Now there are times (especially when dealing with legacy code) that you need use reflection to crack open a class to push/pull values but I would strongly suggest you consider the solutions...
    Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 09-09-2009
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  • Quantity is NOT a measure of Quality

    Today I was asked what I thought about asking each of our feature teams to report the total number of new unit tests created during their iteration.  My knee-jerk reaction was to ask the person WTF were they thinking.  However, my better sense (yea, I have a little common sense) kicked in....
    Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 08-21-2009
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  • Moving to Kanban : A Mentoring Session

    After my recent post about our software team moving to Kanban I got an email from Derick Bailey asking how he could help with our transition. Derick graciously offered to meet with our team and help with any questions we may have and provide guidance as someone who has traveled this path before. We met...
    Posted to Tim Barcz by Tim Barcz on 08-19-2009
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  • Refactoring Relationships

    Working with people is a lot like working with code. New relationships are green fields. Over time they become brown fields and (just like code) they require maintenance. I’m sure that everyone reading this can identify some legacy relationships that they would describer as, well, complicated. Just like...
    Posted to Christopher Bennage by Christopher Bennage on 08-08-2009
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  • Moving to Kanban, Did Scrum Fail?

    Several months ago our software team decided to dive into the Scrum process. What we were doing before that simply wasn't working. The project had unstable delivery dates and we knew something needed to change. Fast forward about four months and we're going to take a shot at using Kanban and...
    Posted to Tim Barcz by Tim Barcz on 08-06-2009
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  • Agile Living

    I yearn to be consistent. I want my professional values to be the same as my personal ones. This is why I was quick to sign the Agile Manifesto ; it aligned with my personal values. I have been overcommitted for the last couple of months and the stress has forced me to do some professional reevaluation...
    Posted to Christopher Bennage by Christopher Bennage on 08-04-2009
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