"Skating On Thin Ice"
Over the past two months, work has been pretty...well, depressing. Right before having to leave for our honeymoon and the Thanksgiving holiday, a coworker and I were finishing up a major project for a...
View Article"Page One"
...otherwise known as "The Breakthrough":Scott Bellware's recent series on a project he's working inspired me to dust off my copy of Domain Driven Design and explore learning how to write software that...
View ArticleVSTS Experience: Part 1
My team is trying out Team Foundation Server (TFS) for our "new" development environment. I have to say that I was initially extremely psyched about getting to stand up Beta 3 Refresh on a machine, but...
View ArticleVSTS Experience: Part 2
I'm a youngin. I'm in my mid-20s and I have not had much experience outside a Microsoft environment. It's what I grew-up in, it's what I know. However, I've learned a lot in the past 2 years alone...
View ArticleChasing the Dream
Sadly, that's not a song title, but it should be.This weekend, my younger brother left for Florida to start attending Full Sail where he'll be a student of Computer Art and Animation. He has a "blawg"...
View ArticleGoodbye GotDotNet, Hello CodePlex
Rob Caron announced, along with James Newkirk and Korby Parnell, that Microsoft has deployed the first public beta of the replacement for GotDotNet.com - CodePlex.com, which is build on Team Foundation...
View ArticleIntelliSense for SQL Server Tools
I went for a visit to Scott Guthrie's blog to get the Web Application Project Template and found that Red-Gate Software now has a free (like Visual Studio Express free) tool for providing IntelliSense...
View ArticleProcess Problems
While this won't be an issue for me much longer, I recently ran into a situation that I'm not sure how agile-ists handle during product/project development. I'll try to summarize what happened.A...
View Article6 Seconds of Fame
As may[not] have read previously, my brother is currently living/studying at Full Sail in Central Florida to become a computer animator. He'll be starting his third month tomorrow and the fruit of his...
View ArticleChanges
Previously, I hinted at changes going on in my life - personally and professionally. A week ago today, I started a new job at the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania as an...
View ArticleNow THAT'S a Feature!
From "How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control":"Due to recent enhancements with the Flash Player installers, you are now only able to uninstall by using the Adobe Flash...
View ArticleMy Tour of Agile Development
While I've posted on using/doing Test Driven Development in the past, I have a few confessions to make. First, when I started blogging (about a year ago), most of my "unit tests" where really more...
View ArticleThe Next [Family] Feud
(reader beware: this post comes from the author's recent findings on numerous posts on Agile Methods, TDD, design, and other buzzwords that he pays attention to. Incoherient ramblings may be present....
View ArticleControl Yourself!!
I fired up my work laptop this morning at home and, upon opening a project in VS2k5, I was greeted with the following options as I was not connected to the corp. network...I thought to my self, "you...
View Article"Does your incompetence know no bounds?"
On the subject of TDD, no, no it doesn't...Level II, I am. (found while reading Object Mentor Blogs)
View ArticleWhat's in the Name?
When you get down to it, nothing really. The original one got boring and I hated explaining what I meant and all that jazz.So the new one better reflects who I am and what I'm about. I am a consumer of...
View ArticleHurry Up!!...Wait...
I was reading a post by Michael today and thought I'd express my thoughts given its relevance to my job - at least as of today. Tomorrow may be something completely different...Personally, I hate the...
View ArticleFirefox Supports XSL?
So I wanted to view the RSS feed that I have set for Visual Studio to load on start up, and when I browsed to the URL, I got a nicely formatted presentation of the RSS feed. "Wha??", I exclaimed. A...
View Article"Everyone See Palmer Now"
And now for something completely different...When I heard that ESPN was awarded the contract to carry Monday Night Football, I rejoiced. Madden is/was/always will be a Hall of Fame coach; and that's...
View ArticleBit Shifting: What is it and Why
OK, so maybe I'm way behind the times, but I finally figured out why in the world one would ever want to shift bits. I came by this discovery after reading one of Ron Jefferies' recent posts. Pay...
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