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David Starr
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MSFT has announced plans to upgrade the .NET framework to 4.0 on the next major release, and in the same communiqué quietly slipped in some interesting news. The features previously relegated to the Visual Studio Database Professional SKU will be moved...
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When I heard Uncle Bob ’s keynote address at the Agile conference in Toronto this year, I just knew he had to come on the show. Lucky for all of us, he agreed! Given that the title of Uncle Bob’s latest book is Clean Code , the Elegant Code Cast was a...
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I often have opportunities to work with organizations in transition to Team Foundation Server for their source control solution. Most large organizations (and many smaller ones) look for a migration route for their source code that allows them to retain...
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This video shows a demo of Android and (wait for it), announces a $10 million dollar developer fund for the like of you and me. That makes Sprint’s $25,000 contest for the Instinct on Java BREW kinda cute.
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In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, Jared Richardson visited with David and Chris. Jared is the author of Ship It! and a frequent speaker on the Java No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Jared shares some stories earned through working with large and small...
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You get to the end of your sprint and there is that are 2 incomplete stories left on the sprint backlog. Story A is judged to be 80% done, Story B was never even started. What do we do with these stories? Options: Give 80% of the point value of Story...
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Ever notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to June. June Cleaver is the classic enabler with a bad case...
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Of course, I am not the first person to do this, but gosh, isn’t it cool? This is the test suite from a project I am working on and I decided to move the BDD naming convention into the syntax: (class name) + (method name) = behavioral sentence This library...
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Chris and David were lucky enough to sit down (okay, it was a conference call) with Grigori Melnik and Ajoy Krishnamoorthy from Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices. Grigori and Ajoy covered a wide range of topics including Agile development practices within...
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I was recently presented a rather interesting question, “Are our products technically current?” The easy answer is to look at something like whether or not our web applications will run on the latest version of IIS and whether or not our applications...
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Alan Shalloway, president of NetObjectives and co-author of " Design Patterns Explained " talks to us about Lean Softweare Development, Software Design Patterns, and the evolving discussion around Agile. This was a great discussion at the Agile...
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Note: Alan just finished recording an Elegant Code Cast with me that will be published later. I attended Alan Shalloway ’s session at Agile 2008 on Value Stream Mapping . I have been wanting to pick up the skill of creating value stream maps for some...
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I am attending this session from the godfather of legacy code . How could I pass it up? Michael’s core assertion is that a code base reflects the business climate of the organization that created it. Session Quotes The result of my book has been the opportunity...
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I drove from Boise to Seattle yesterday to drop off my 4 kids at the grandparents house, then I got up at 4 this morning to catch a plane. Now, I am in Toronto and am really impressed! This place is cool! There was a street festival in full swing when...
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I just read the best article I have come across in a while. Craig Larman and Victor Basili take us to school with a historical perspective on iterative development practices. Thanks, Martin , for the pointer. This article provides a little perspective...
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