Development Notes, News and Ramblings
I actually saw a reference to this on Rocky’s site, but incldued my own link here for posterity. This is a very neat concept that I am completely clueless about. Hey admission is the first step isnt it! So now I can learn. Seems like a nifty idea.
“….What if objects could move from machine […]
I just ran a maintenance query on the database of my blog to remove trackback spam entries.
It came back telling me “6,875 records deleted“. Can you believe it? This is the activity of 6-8 weeks of crap being dumped on my site. Yuck!
“….For as smart a guy as Joel Spolsky supposedly is, you’d think he’d keep his dumb ass remarks off his blog and between himself and his interns…..”
Boy I love it when Phil gets down.
He does have a point. I used to think that Joel was a giant windbag. Now I think he is […]
Joel Spolsky talks about the fact that one good programmer can do as much as five bad ones. (Or something like that).
I would like to add to his point that a high salary is not necessarily a sign of a good programmer. I’ve know plenty of guys who didnt charge top dollar and blew […]
It seems to me that there has been some sort of change in the way projects are budgeted and positions are filled in the software industry. And I believe the culprits for this climate are the go-go years of the Internet and Offhsore production. (Of course I could be wrong)
When I started […]
It seems to me that there has been some sort of change in the way projects are budgeted and positions are filled in the software industry. And I believe the culprits for this climate are the go-go years of the Internet and Offhsore production. (Of course I could be wrong)
When I started […]
I enjoy good tools as much as the next guy, but when I am charged an arm and a leg for a tool - or in the case of Codesmith 3.0, the sum of $400.00, I expect everything to work. Well it didn’t. And that ticked me off. To make matters worse the customer service […]
Wow I must have been really busy that I completely missed this excellent discussion by Martin Fowler. Actually I have to thank Ben Wilson for using proper terminology which caused me to stumble across this wonderful discussion of PicoContainer and Spring.
While both are Java based implementations, their root cause is universal. I’m glad to […]
Just what the world or crash software development cycles really needed - an FDA approved drug that lets you stay awake up to 40 hours without any sideffects. Don’t let the boss hear about that one….
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Ship It is published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf, a fairly new publisher with an interesting assortment of titles. Probably the best known being “The Prgamatic Programmer”.
The subject, as implied by the books title, is the process of shipping software on time and on budget. The book was written by two veteran programmers […]
Learn about the unit testing features of Team Test from a TDD, test-then-code approach with this walkthrough.
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These thoughts are the result of a collaboration, first with Beat Schwegler and our presentation of “The Grey Area of Implementing Services Using Object-Oriented Technologies” at last year’s TechEd in Amsterdam; with Michael Regan, who does a lot of fieldwork with large customers; and finally with Christian Weyer, co-founder of thinktecture, who has been providing […]