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 [...]
This is so correct and true to life it is scary.
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 [...]
In my experience project estimates are all over the place and often do not have any relationship to reality. Depending on any number of subjective factors the same amount of work gets turned into very untenable estimates.
Recently I watched a team of developers produce estimates that were fairly reasonable only to be asked to build the project [...]
Andrew Savikas over at O’Reilly has a short note on the bankruptcy of Amp’d Mobile. I guess I could start a collection of blog posts about companies with promising revenue models that where so badly mismanaged that they either made themselves irrelevant, curtailed their ability to compete or just really put themselves out of business. [...]
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 [...]
OK that was goofy. But it shouldn’t distract from Goijko’s post describing his experience of using Selenium and Fitnesse together to run some very nice functional tests of web sites. To me this is a great example because software testing can be a bit of a chore. Sure unit tests are nice, but how often [...]
Red Gate Software has an open beta for the next version of its flagship product. This new version has improvements such as
* Synching to and from scripts, for version control
* UI improvements for managing comparison projects
* Various other UI improvements
If you are interested in beta testing, contact me and I will put you in touch [...]
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 [...]