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Around the Net #28
Posted by benoit on 23 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Agile, Around the Net, design
Somber Weekend
Agile
Tom Ottinger thinks he has found what the essence of Agile is all about: reach.
Community
Scott Hanselman explores the parallels between learning multiple languages at a young age and learning programming languages early in your career. Learning the Most Popular vs. Learning those that help you learn others.
Cory Foy grew up at a house with a 40′ Satellite Dish! What a childhood! Taking apart old TV sets and computer sure was fun!
From Rob, comes the news that Charles Petzold’s latest work, a sequel to Code, has been turned down by Microsoft Press. Hopefuly, a publisher will pick it up. Who would have thunk!
Design
Udi has an interesting article on a design useful when Fetching data from a Database.
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 #25
Posted by benoit on 18 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net, career, design
Nice spring day…what am I doing inside?
Career
PierG points out that when becoming the boss, you have to change what you’re doing and learn what you need to.
Rob has the highlights of the latest Dice Local Job Market Report. And Beaufort didn’t make it on the list! I’m shocked!
Tim Ottinger points out that if you coach people, you shouldn’t slap them.
Community
Scott Bellware has just about had it with Vista and he takes it out on “a herd of self-interested old farts pissing on the same piece of ground”. I think I’ll hold on to XP a while longer…or make sure Vista can run VMWare Workstation…
If you want to hear Larry O’Brien, listen to the DeveloperWorks podcast about the Jolt Awards (via Larry’s Blog).
Design
Tim O. has an interesting entry on code being a liability instead of an asset. Striking the right balance between soluble (as per Scott B.) and too dense is tricky.
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!