June 2007 - Posts
Well, we have had a very busy 3 days, even by 30-day blitz standards. We have completed a project plan that took us to about 34 days, debated an extra 2 days about design, and through a very messy, socratic process, come to start the build phase as of
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Well, the good news - we have a functional idea of what we are going to do for a solution. Thank god for MOSS+Infopath+Reporting Services - that combination is real useful for speeding up certain kinds of mundane detail. The bad news, is that we have
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Other than working to the point of literal exhaustion - we made a ton of progress. In one day, we pretty much defined the scope of the problem, mapped out the entire process we are optimizing, not to mention simply getting the local team here entirely
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This post comes to you from the Frankfurt Airport, en route to Hyderabad. One of my more eponymous colleagues is posting about our trip on CIO.com . Indeed, this trip might be my highest profile gig to date. But even bigger - if we manage to make this
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I love it when people come around :) A money quote from Martin Fowler : "The hypothesis has a corollary, which comes from the the design payoff line. If the functionality for your initial release is below the design payoff line, then it may be worth
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... well, not really. Not yet anyway :) I am off to India for two weeks, starting this upcoming Saturday, to help a large, well known developer of software learn about pragmatic agile methods (note the lower-case a), and put them in practice for what
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Oren Novotny - a contributor to i4o, has come out with a new LINQ "flavor" called SLinq . SLinq allows you to do LINQ operations on live streams of data, notably, things like live stock feeds. SLinq is an important part of the LINQ ecosystem,
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