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Around the Net #18
Posted by benoit on 04 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net
Time crunch, Time crunch!
Community
Rob Walling has a great piece on what it means to be a professional. It’s all about deadlines!
A micro-ISV bill of rights! (via The Daily Grind)
Testing
Michael has a great piece about Developers & Testers and how isolation is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Around the Net #17
Posted by benoit on 03 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net
Where did the day go?
.NET
Jamie Cansdale TestDriven.NET now supports the VS2005 Express Edition SKUs. This is such a time saver. Do support Jamie by purchasing the professional version. (via The Daily Grind)
Community
Jonathan wrote an article for Better Software magazine about valuing reality over ideology. He has graciously made it available as a PDF. I particularly like the when developers don’t want to listen to you, start humming Ain’t nothin’ Like the Real Thing.
Cory Foy talks about receiving a rejection slip for his proposed session at Agile 2007. Submitting a proposal seems to be the way to know what the sessions are before anyone else.
VersionOne has released a free version of their agile project management software for 5 users or less. This is fantastic news for small shops like ours. (via The ServerSide .NET)
Rick Merritt over at EETimes thinks that Steve Jobs’ plan to offer DRM-free music on iTunes will fall flat. I can just say that I like my MP3s that I can use everywhere…Go Steve! is what I say. As the owner of 2 (now ancient) Sony NW-3 music player which forced you to encode your songs in some weird format for DRM reasons, I’m all for non-DRMed music.
Around the Net #16
Posted by benoit on 02 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net, Testing, design
To aggregate or not to aggregate…that is the question on a day like this!
Community
Looks like Sam Gentile will give a session about the internals of the CLR at DevTeach. He also shows you what you need to build the Rotor V2 CLR.
Sam is feeling constrained about what he can put on the CodeBetter blog. To alleviate this, he has started a new blog about non-professional pursuits. I admire Sam immensely. His writing (unlike mine) is always impeccable and informative.
Design
Reaching back in the archives, I found this interesting post about including security in Use Case Modeling.
Testing
Another oldie at Michael’s (or is it Micahel’s) blog about what to put in the resolution field of your bug tracking software. You are using bug tracking software aren’t you?
Around the Net #15
Posted by benoit on 30 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net, design
A bit late, but still out.
Community
Microsoft is giving away free Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. Simply attend a couple of Visual Basic virtual labs and submit an evaluation (via The Daily Grind)
Larry O’Brien reports that InfoWorld, the print magazine is no more. It will be strictly online from now on. I believe Eric Sink predicted the demise of the developer magazine a year ago. While InfoWorld is not exactly a developer magazine, it’s close enough! I’m convinced Eric has a crystal ball stashed somewhere in his office!
If you’re into electronic gadgets and rely on Circuit City’s sales staff(?!) their latest cost cutting move might not sit well with you.
Design
Adam Goucher has a post about Prince2, a different process model with built in testing of everything.
While I’m not personally into Web Services, Cory Foy has an interesting article about autogenerating Tests for Web Services using Visual Studio.
Brad Abrams posted a great video of Krzysztof Cwalina (of Framework Design Guidelines fame). The video is about great framework design. It’s 3 hours(!) but I believe it would be worthwhile, as the FDG should be mandatory reading if you’re designing a framework.
Around the Net #14
Posted by benoit on 29 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net, ramblings
Working on a cold just as spring gets here…that bites!
Agile
If you are into Agile, or are considering it, you should seriously look at Pete Behrens’ Carnival of Agilists. This is your one stop shop for all the web happenings in the Agile Community.
Nice post over at Agile in Action on how to say No in a nice way. In my own experience, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t…
Humor
Brad Abrams points out that JavaScript is now mainstream. I always had a soft spot for Weird Al.
Harry Nieboer has an older post about Lies engineers tell… We all have experienced this, either giving or receiving.