Tim Barcz

Poor Design Is Not a Bug

Ayende recently posted a an article titled “Where is the bug” . While reading the comments, I was disappointed by some of the answers to Ayende’s request to find the bug. Here are two of the comments that stood out to me: “You could argue the biggest...

Published 11-25-2010 9:37 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Principles, Common Sense, Musings, Commentary

Task Parallel Library: Real-World Results

I’m working on a project that requires chewing through a lot of data. While looking for ways to make the code run faster – I hate waiting – I decided to throw the new Task Parallel Library at the problem to see what sort of improvements I could gain. ...

Published 11-19-2010 12:47 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: .NET Framework, TPL

What to Make of Intel Buying McAfee

James Senior posted on his Twitter account : “oh dear lord no. why intel, why? http://ow.ly/2s2dm reminds me of when Intel got into the hosting business. http://ow.ly/2s2fT ” James is referencing an article posted by the BBC on the recent news of Intel...

Published 08-19-2010 3:39 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Opinion, Commentary

St. Louis Day of .NET

Now that we’ve entered August, we’re just three short weeks away from St. Louis Day of .NET (taking place August 20-21). Last year I gave two talks ( Rhino Mocks and beginner’s guide to unit testing). This year I’ve been lucky...

Published 08-02-2010 3:30 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Announcement, Conferences

Open Source Whining

Was working on a blog post talking about a problem I’ve found in Git (1.7.0.2) and I thought I would check to see if it’s been fixed in the most recent version. After downloading and installing I reviewed the release notes where I’m quite shocked...

Published 07-28-2010 9:04 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Open Source Software, Git

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...

Published 03-15-2010 12:08 AM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Agile, Musings, Methodology

Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?

This time of year is a time of resolutions and there certainly have been blog posts sprouting up about 2010 and what people are going to change about themselves. I’m however going to approach it differently… Habit #2 of the The 7 Habits of...

Published 12-31-2009 11:31 AM by Tim Barcz

Unit Testing Strategy: Hiding Out In the Open

Sometimes there are pieces of code that you want to test but you just don’t quite see how you can unit test it easily. I have illustrated one such example below where I am interacting with the file system. Take the following snippet for example...

Published 12-16-2009 9:38 AM by Tim Barcz

Ralph Waldo Emerson Would’ve Been a Great Developer

A very short quote I came across to start your week off and get you thinking about technology with the correct frame of reference: “As to the methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully...

Published 12-14-2009 12:06 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Principles, Quotes

Confessions of a First Time Manager

Many months ago I wrote a letter to upper management about principles of software development and the ways in which should build software. Since that time my role has changed within the company and for the first time in my career I’m managing a...

Published 12-12-2009 10:10 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Opinion, Improvement, Musings

I Just Cloned, Why Did Git Change My Files?

Being new to Git I got thrown off a few weeks ago when cloning a remote repository and immediately seeing changes after the clone completed. Scratching my head a bit, I reached out on Twitter and James Gregory came to the rescue. How is it that right...

Published 11-29-2009 10:35 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Tips And Tricks, Git

Devlicio.us Lands Another - Rob Reynolds

One of the goals of the devlicio.us community is to bring you some of the best developers and content in the developer community. Over the past few months Devlicious has added a few new people to it's growing blogging community. If you haven't...

Published 11-22-2009 10:05 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Announcement

Resharper 5.0 - Bookmarks

Today it was announced that Resharper 5.0 will soon be introduced as part of the public EAP (Early Access Program) . As one on JetBrains .NET Academy Experts I’ve had access to Resharper 5.0 for a few weeks. While in the coming weeks and months...

Published 10-09-2009 1:35 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Announcement, ReSharper

Git…Command-line or GUI?

A short quick post to get some feedback from you, the reader. I’m working to learn and transition to Git (using Jason Meridth’s great series on Git ). Up to this point I’ve been using the command-line only, working to learn Git on the command-line...

Published 10-07-2009 2:15 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Git

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...

Published 09-29-2009 1:49 PM by Tim Barcz

Filed under: Rant, Agile, Testing, Opinion

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