Thoughts on Web Development
Microsoft’s developer story has recently diverged into a tale of two cities. Martin Fowler and Sam Gentile both recently wrote about it. On one hand, you have the traditional Mort-focused camp, which focuses on creating drag-and-drop developer tools like GridViews, DataSources, and Typed DataSets. For this group, the traditional ASP.NET WebForm model appears to be [...]
A friend pointed me to this great article from Business Week talking about Ford’s new CEO, Alan Mullaly, and some of Mullaly’s experiences in trying to change the culture within Ford. I found one paragraph that correlated to some of my past experiences as a software developer: After a couple of hours on the firing line, Ford’s [...]
Internships are often an exciting experience for students entering many fields. They can be a great place to learn, network with peers, and develop lasting professional relationships that will be important when first starting a career. They are also a great way to “test drive” a company that you may want to work for in the future. Software internships can [...]
I generally don’t do book reviews as part of my blog, but after finishing reading Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming In Code, I can’t resist. This book is excellent. I first heard about it from Joel Spolsky and I also heard great things about it from a few attendees at the recent Dallas Code Camp. So I went over to [...]
Scott Hanselman, noted developer and blogger, recently twittered his blood sugar checks in order to raise awareness of Diabetes. The full transcript of his twitters is now available on his site and it is definitely worth the read to see what an active diabetic goes through on a daily basis. My paternal grandparents both [...]
Tim Stall had a great post entitled “Why would someone work for your company?” where he outlined a number of things companies can do to be more attractive for top developer talent without breaking the budget. I highly recommend reading the entire post, but one point in particular got me thinking about software management. Good developers [...]
Well after being issued a challenge by Jayson Knight to switch to Community Server after my job change announcement, I can finally say that my migration is complete! Here is what I had to do in order to get my blog migrated over from WordPress.com to a self-hosted Community Server 2007 installation. Find a decent [...]
Joe Ocampo had a great post where he gave his checklist for an effective Agile Development Manager. I think that many of the points he makes are very relevant for even non-Agile development managers too. And while I agree with most of what Joe is saying, there are a few areas that I want to expand on. 1. You [...]
I still find it amazing how many people mistook the context of my original response to Dave Laribee’s ALT.NET post. It started with a few blogs and I tried addressing it via commenting on those posts but I’m still getting comments on my blog about it so I think it’s time I just set the [...]
I had been sitting on this news until things were more finalized, but now I think it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. I have recently accepted a position with Telligent as a Software Development Engineer in their Services division! Telligent is well known for their community-based platform, Community Server. For those who [...]
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