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When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming". There are more times than I can count where I have been in conversations,
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It is down to these 8 :). By all means, opinions please! Stay tuned, another major excerpt coming this week.
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Click here to see a slideshow regarding what I believe to be the 10 Commandments for the CIO in 2009. I will give away the ending here though, as the underlying principles are as follows: * Reduce costs – Stop spending “stupid” money.
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Nothing like a crisis to get the mind working. It appears that the US is going to provide investment banks $700,000,000,000 (written out for effect) to cover up for the mistakes related to their "financial engineering". This is all well and
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Ido Flatow has updated MetaLinq to include a very cool feature - namely, support for serialization of expression trees to XML. Basically, this feature allows you to specify an expression tree using XML, read it in using MetaLinq, and go on to execute
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This is a book excerpt from my upcoming book, "The Nomadic Developer". It is in a chapter titled "The Seven Deadly Firms", which includes elaboration on two previous firms, FEAR and BOZO , as well as several others you will need to buy the book to learn
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This morning, I received word that two of my colleagues in Chicago, Ben Cline and Anthony Handley , both were awarded MVP awards. Ben Cline is a master of BizTalk who spends a lot of time in the MSDN forums helping people untangle issues. Earlier this
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Some time ago, I speculated that F# should be the lingua-franca of BI . Well, had I done a little research, I would have found out that people are already doing BI using F#, namely Microsoft. On a recent podcast of The Thirsty Developer (to be published
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* Screen Count Leads to the idea that Google.com can be replicated in 2 days if you can knock out 1 screen per day. Not all cases are Google, but seriously, estimation by screen count is a horrible idea. * Number of Objects/Classes For one, it implies
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A quick update of what I have going on for the speaking agenda. * Michiana .NET Users Group , South Bend, IN, Aug 19th, "F#, The Business Case" * Codeapalooza , Sept 6th, Chicago, IL, "Super-Optimized LINQ - Indexed Objects" * ACM:
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I am very pleased to announce that I am now officially writing a book, through Addison Wesley, about ins and outs of the technology consulting business. The best way to think of the book is as an operating manual for your career as a technology consultant.
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If you can't write a design until you write some code, how do agilists (or agilistas - you decide where you sit) - do estimation? I am really curious. I have, and do, do the COCOMO thing, function points, and other techniques. Occasionally, if I think
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My friends and colleagues Chris Williams and Jason Bock - with the graphics/UX help of Anthony Handley - are putting on an event that can only qualify as EPIC. No, its not yet another user group, code camp, or something like that. No, this one is strictly
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Some of my colleagues at Magenic, Justin Chase and Rocky Lhotka , have developed a very nifty framework for unit testing Silverlight apps - UnitDriven . In particular, it is optimized for testing asynchronous code in Silverlight, which is virtually impossible
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Video: What the F# In this video from TechEd Online, recorded at Teched last month, Amanda Laucher (aka Pandamonial) and I talk about what F# is, why you should care, and why functional programming matters. In an amazing coincidence, Amanda happened to
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