Development Ideas and Ramblings
Under the best of circumstances, Agile Methodologies – especially SCRUM – puts the development team smack dab in the center of the process and has the entire life cycle revolve around it. That’s why so many programmers love Agile. But even organizations that, for whatever reason, are not able to support a 100% Agile environment [...]
I have been slogging my way through the MS MVC architecture. There are some good parts and some really hard to get used to parts. Some stuff just has me completely puzzled. For example when your used to setting an autopostback property on a drop down control, the need to have to hand code some [...]
As a programmer / consultant I always work on improving my skills. Except for the past year or so. I coasted a little bit. Consequently I am faced with two technologies that I need to study up. MS MVC and Silverlight. My personal feeling is that Silverlight will grow into the larger market over [...]
Wow, I really have been leading a pretty sheltered life as a consultant. There is a toolset I have used for a number of years that has predictably delivered results. When it comes to projects where you deliver or you dont eat its pretty important that your tools work. Along the way I was fortunate [...]
I believe that the surge in various open source projects , as well as certain commercial ones, that provide proper ORM tools to the .NET development community may pose a bit of an issue for MS. You see, the data access structure that MS has espoused for the past 10+ years was usually based on [...]
Ola Blini has a very interesting post about John Lam’s work on a MS version of Ruby. The most important part of it – to me – is the point that MS employees are not allowed to use Open Source projects in any way when developing new code. Hence John is not allowed to even [...]
Sam Gentile has a lengthy post about a recent essay called RubyMicrosoft by none other than Martin Fowler. Both items are excellent reads. Sam underscores the chasm that exists between certain elements of the MS Development community. Although I do want to add one point – I have used Dependency Injection and ORM for almost [...]
This week I have been working with NxTV, the premier supplier of in room entertainment for hotels. The product sold by NxTV is essentially a small computer that is attached to the hotel tv set. Customers can order movies or internet access on it. The set top box talks to a couple of servers and [...]
Who can blame the guy. He has a product that supports a bunch of different database servers. So consequently he is very familiar with his subject matter.
He says: “…Scientists should stick with science. What they invent and discover should be moved to the real world by engineers, not by scientists as well. Because, if you [...]
This is so hilarious. I absolutely love it.
[Remember WinFS? Remember we spent thousands of years of developer effort and billions of dollars, and delayed Vista by years... and ended up canning the whole thing. Well the only thing we salvaged from the whole sorry fiasco, was something called the ADO.Net Entity Framework. It allows you [...]