Thoughts on Web Development
As I mentioned before, my new role in the North Dallas .NET User group is to help organize speakers for our user group meetings. I’m excited to share the upcoming speaker lineup as I think we have some great speakers on some very interesting topics. November 04, 2009: Rachel Appel on JQuery January 6, 2010: [...]
I recently came across an old post on The Mole Skin that listed out the 5 deadly sins of the Web Profesional and I thought it would be appropriate to come up with a similar list for Software Developers. So here is my list. Not making time for community Being part of a developer community [...]
Web Developers that lack skills in User Experience Design often turn to Designers to flesh out websites via the creation of Comprensive Layouts (or comps). Comps are usually created in an image editor like Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks and are exported as static images, usually in the form of Photoshop (PSD) files. These images are then [...]
There’s an interesting discussion going on right now about whether Software Development has grown too complex. Lately this discussion was sparked by Ted Neward’s post on Agile treating the symptoms, not the disease. I’ve been interested in this discussion since I first heard the DevLink panel discussion on the same subject. My general feeling is [...]
There’s a lot of discussion going around about the evolution of software development towards building in long term quality and maintainability up front using practices like TDD. A lot of it was sparked by Joel Spolsky’s praise of the Duct Tape Programmer. The latest post in this discussion that caught my eye was Scott C [...]
I was recently accepted as an officer of the North Dallas .NET User group. I’ve been a member of the group for a few years now and have formed many great professional relationships through it so I’m very pleased to join the ranks of the officers! North Dallas .NET is going through a few organizational [...]
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