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Around the Net #27
Posted by benoit on 19 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Agile, Around the Net, design
When the net fails, revert to dead trees… DDJ in this case
Agile
Scott Ambler has an article about transitioning from developing an agile project to the delivery of the final project. What then?
Community
Bertrand Meyer, the creator of the Eiffel language, has won the ACM Software System Award. He was a pioneer of the design-by-contract approach to object oriented programming. I still have his book “Object-Oriented Software Construction“.
Holy guacamole! My post on ageism got Larry O’Brien thinking which caused Mike Gunderloy to include that in The Daily Grind 1124. I guess I should do less aggregation and more angst-based posting?
Ryan Martens has an opinion piece in Dr. Dobbs about how the software industry has a massive impact on the environment, even though we think of ourselves as working in the digital world. I’m all for less CDs!
Design
Udi Dahan has a podcast over at DDJ about how to structure .NET solutions and Components. Dang! Yet another interesting blog.
Ivar Jacobson has written a few articles for DDJ which points out that development processes should be replaced with Practices that are customized for your needs and level of experience. Part 1 and Part 2 are out. Part 3 will be next month. This appeals to my pragmatic side, but all these practices typically need some coaching…
Around the Net #26
Posted by benoit on 18 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Agile, Around the Net, C++, design
Do two posts in a day make up for missing Tuesday?
.NET
Brad Abrams points to a study about the savings achieved by ClickOnce deployment…$36,500. From the Microsoft Internal HR Application department.
Agile
An interesting article about Lockheed Martin using an Agile approach for the new F-35 jet. Talk about a Scrum of Scrums…
A podcast with Jim Trott and Alan Shalloway about the value of Lean-Agile development.
Community
Larry O’Brien has prior art for a dubious patent: “Hyperlinking from a CD to the web”. I suspect PubPat would welcome his help.
Scott Bellware has a plan for Microsoft…if he was king for a day.
Design
Uncle Bob ponders Coding Styles. They are a good thing, but it should just be about style, not content. Consistency should rule. The problem I run into is that I use about 6 different IDEs (Visual Studio Classic, 2005, VB 6.0, 3 flavors of embedded IDE). I would love having 1 editor, customize it, have the macros setup for comments & auto-styling. Ever tried to use slackEdit to do VB 6.0?
Tim Ottinger has an intro to auto_ptr and Single ownership in C++. Good stuff…if only our C++ code was VC 8 vintage…
Around the Net #24
Posted by benoit on 16 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Agile, Around the Net, design
Monday, Monday….
.NET
Scott Hanselman talks about tools he uses to compare binary .NET assemblies. Great to figure out what changed without doing a source diff.
Chris Sells is collecting the best online resources for WPF. If you have a good one, go see him.
Community
Sam Gentile vents against the lack of Vista power-user edition. he had to go a tweak his new machine endlessly to display extensions, avoid all the modal pop-ups, copy files(?!), etc…
Sam has also put out New and Notable 157. Interesting links on Agile and also RESTful design.
Scott Bellware has a good piece on Marie Antoinette’s take to the software maintenance mantra of “read the code“. Code should be easy to read and communicate the intent. I find myself struggling with that sentiment versus the actual pressure of delivering a deeply embedded system in a short time frame. Sometimes, I long leave embedded behind and luxuriate in the plush .NET environment of VS 2005.
Design
Larry O’Brien talks about the lessons history holds that could be applied toward the looming parallel processing crisis.
The prolific Scott has an entry on Test-Driven Architecture. I’m thinking it is complimentary with Roy Osherove’s Testable Object Oriented Programming.
Testing
Scott Bellware talks about how the organization of their unit tests has changed. They used to have 2 projects: fast tests (aka unit tests) and slow tests (aka integration tests). No more!
Around the Net #11
Posted by benoit on 26 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Agile, Around the Net, career, design, ramblings
Ahh..recovering from the 1st sunburn of the season…
Career
Looking to work as an embedded engineer in Ireland? Ralph Depping points out a few resources available.
Community
10 signs your software project is doomed. Item #4 strikes a cord. (via The Daily Grind).
Hacknot has reached his boiling point with the Dynamic Language oopla going on. An article in IEEE’s software magazine sent him over the edge into a 8000 word essay. Well worth a read :-) You might also want to download the Hacknot Book; a free collection of Hacknot essays
Development
Brian Button has a nice article on How to come up with a good list of test when doing TDD.
Chris Morris points out to a less that useful discussion on architecture his project had.
Around the Net #10
Posted by benoit on 23 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Agile, Around the Net
Who knew #10 would come so quickly?
.NET
Eric Gunnerson has a first impressions of WPF with Visual Studio and Blend working together. Bottom line: Recommended.
Community
Doug Gaff talks about what it takes to have a successful open source add-in project for eclipse. Quite a bit different than your typical corporate project.
Ryan over at Rally muses about the downside of agile: No big release party every 18 months. His solution: Just win the Jolt award two years in a row!
An open letter to Scott Guthrie: Microsoft, why do you reinvent the wheel? Play nice with open source! (via The Daily Grind)
Sam Gentile has a great News and Notable 151 with Agile & Good Software Design practices. Just go read it.
Download the latest Hanselminute for an interview with Raymond Chen (of the Old New Thing). Don’t pass an occasion to hear about MS Bob.
Design
Neil Ford has a great podcast on Domain Specific Language (via Scott Bellware)
Tim Ottinger talks about Solution Probleming…looking for a way to shoehorn that new technique (he’s talking about design patterns) you learned into your project.
Tim Ottinger is being prolific this week. He expands on his original post about the only significant numbers in software design: Zero, One and Many. Here are the expanded entries: Zero, One and Many.
Owen Taylor talks about the SpaceFacade pattern. I don’t know enough about the technology to know what I’m talking about, but this seems to be more SOA. Looks like it’s tied to the GigaSpace service, but hey they have a .NET API.