Thoughts on Web Development
Dare Obasanjo started a thread listing things he learned about software while in college and Scott Hanselman extended it by adding three more things he learned in college and three things he learned outside of college. Both bloggers had some great points and I recommend reading both posts as well as the comments. But I thought [...]
After just recently promising to bring Microsoft’s Silverlight to Linux by years end, Miguel De Icaza, the project leader for Mono, has ported significant portions of Silverlight in only 21 days. He chronicled this effort in a recent blog post. The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had [...]
Nick Malik wrote a post entitled “Mort and the Economics of Unmaintainable Code” where he espoused the belief that re-writing code can be more economical than writing good, maintainable code in the first place. Rather than look at “making code maintainable,” what if we look at making code free. Why do we need to maintain [...]
A few friends and colleagues have asked me how my first week of Telligent went. And I assume some of my readers may be wondering the same thing. In a nutshell, my first week at Telligent was excellent. I’ve been given some new responsibilities, a larger role at a major Dallas area client, and some exciting [...]
Last night, my good friend Dave O’Hara gave an excellent presentation on Automated Unit Testing with the .NET framework to the Dallas .NET User Group. Dave covered the tools available to write unit tests in .NET including NUnit and others. He also covered Mock Objects and Dependency Injection, two topics that I have been trying [...]
Scott Bellware recently ranted about how there seems to be no end to the number of vendors promising the Holy Grail that allows Business people to take responsibility for changes to their business processes and move them into production code. Creating software isn’t hard. Making changes to it is hard. And making changes to software inevitably [...]
You can never have enough useful tips on becoming a better lead developer. From Roy Osherove, there are some great ones in this list. To this list I would add the following: Be open to ideas and approaches from your team members, regardless of their seniority. Don’t dismiss a great idea because it came from an [...]
I took a week off before starting my new job and I decided it would be a good time to try a little experiment. I decided to unplug myself from my computer. Since last Friday, I did the following: Stayed off instant messengers (no Googletalk or MSN) Limited checking email to once a day Twittered maximum [...]
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