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David Starr
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I promised several people in my sessions I would post session materials, so here they are! I should note that I am not comfortable posting my customized SFTS process template at this time. I need to discuss this with the folks at Conchango before taking...
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Ade Miller is a Development Manager in Microsoft patterns & practices. He was good enough to stop by the ElegantCode Cast and chat with us about how p&p does Agile software development. We covered a lot of ground, but the topic of how a high functioning...
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Many people find themselves using MSF Agile in their Team System server simply because the process template comes rolled in the box. The MSF Agile process isn’t the issue here, but the practice of using it to support other processes. Would it make sense...
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Blaine Wastell and Bob Brumfield of Microsoft’s patterns & practices group dropped by the Elegant Code Cast and talked with us about Prism 2.0. Now in it’s second release, Prism is a guidance package from p&p on building composite applications...
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One customization I make frequently to a TFS Team Project is to create source control + Team Build only team projects. Reasons to do this vary, but the reason I have is that I like using the Scrum for Team System process template as a Master or Enterprise...
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Download it here . This will give you Data Dude functionality in Visual Studio for SQL 2008. Plus, this is where you get all Agile in your DB development. Unit testing stored procs and whatnot. There are a lot of other features, too.
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Inherit from an abstract base class Build in your own navigation and targeting algorithms Join the arena Battle to the death. That’s the idea behind this little project, RoboDojo . No, it isn’t a new idea. No, it isn’t terribly unique (Java’s RoboCode...
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Microsoft does an amazingly good job of making technology accessible. What I mean by that is that for people who are not necessarily “technologists”, custom applications are still often within reach. We’ve all seen this in the wild. It might be that ...
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Some of the best reading I do comes from the patterns and practices group at Microsoft. Their prescriptive guidance documents are actually books, and I don’t know that everyone realizes that. It isn’t just p&p that publishes guidance, either. The...
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Dru Sellers and Chris Patterson joined us to talk about their minimalist service bus for .NET, MassTransit. Not only are these guys expert enterprise architects, but they’re just plain funny, too. Join Elegant Coders Jarod Ferguson and David Starr...
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You know those scary smart guys that freak you out when you talk to them because you realize how little you know? And, you know how these same people seem to be the key masters for some esoteric idea or technology you feel guilty for not knowing? Meet...
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I have been playing with BDD conventions for several days and while I am no expert, I genuinely enjoy the way this style forces me to consider design before creating code. I have tried to catch up on all the BDD purse fights going on out there and I understand...
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The Shade Tree Developer joined Elegant Coders Jan Van Ryswyck and Chris Brandsma to talk about several of his current projects. StructureMap is an open source Inversion of Control tool for .NET primarily maintained and developed by Jeremy and Joshua...
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Tamara Sulaiman is the Stage Producer for Distributed Agile at the 2009 conference in Chicago. She joined David Starr to talk about effective practices in distributed Agile software development teams. Tamara shares some great experiences with teams striving...
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In all cases of using a unit test framework, no matter the intent of the test methods, one thing is certainly true: Assertions are being fired . When we Assert with a unit testing framework before the software we are writing passes the assertion, this...
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