So the fires continue to burn, as Joel Spolsky’s internet access hasn’t been disconnected. For someone who is supposed to be an idiot and irrelevant, a lot of people still read and link to him. I guess one guy is corrupting all the new developers, who are assumed to be reading Joel’s...
One of the common themes of this years KaizenConf was how to move a towards being a lean organization. During most of the sessions and conversations that I was part I cannot tell you how often I heard words like Convince, Convert and Persuade said. At first I had nothing against these words, but the...
A few days ago I posted a question to the community, looking for a definition of the ASP.NET MVC framework that didn't depend upon faults in ASP.NET WebForms - after all, faults can be fixed. I also do not like the implication that ASP.NET MVC is for those looking to use the MVC pattern, as...
There is a bit of turbulence in the ASP.NET airspace over MVC (yes, I'm making this post while on the fight back from the ASPInsiders Summit). Even among the ASPInsiders, who are supposed to be at the cutting edge of ASP.NET, there is little agreement over what is MVC and what it's for...
Last night I was listening to a recent HanselMinutes pod casts where he was talking with Tom & Mary Poppendiek . For those of you who do not know who Tom & Mary are, they are the 2 behind a lot of the lean software movement (books here & here ). There was a statement made in the episode...