“Open source feature selection is subjective.” An interesting question was posed to me recently at a presentation - “How do you decide what features to include in the [open source] projects you manage?” Is It Objective? I’d like to say that it’s really objective and that we vote on features and look...
*** NOTE *** This post has been a long time coming, I would like to thank Kevin Hazzard for doing a kick ass Contracts session at TriNug and reminding me to get off my ass and blog about this great feature *** NOTE *** If you are not familiar with the Code Contracts library which is coming out...
I mentioned this awhile back on twitter, but UppercuT (UC) has support for Mercurial for versioning your assemblies. In the settings file, all you need to do it tell UC to use hg. When you build your assemblies, they will use the changeset number in the version, and in the informational version, you...
Chuck Norris doesn’t program with a keyboard. He stares the computer down until it does what he wants. All things need a name. We’ve tossed around a bunch of names for the framework of tools we’ve been working on, but one we kept coming back to was Chuck Norris. Why did we choose Chuck Norris...
As a general rule all software development teams will create technical debt during the construction of their product. Creating this debt is in no way an indicator that the team is bad or not talented, but rather is an indicator that they understand that there are always tradeoffs when building...