Thoughts on Web Development
I recently attended the CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio for the first time this week. This was after hearing that I should go for the past three years from friends and former colleagues in both the .NET and Ruby communities. CodeMash started as a mostly a regional conference, but there were quite a few of [...]
I was very fortunate to recently attend the Pablo’s Fiesta Open Spaces conference in Austin, TX. This was my first Open Spaces event and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It was also great to catch up with some folks in the community that I hadn’t seen in a while. And I enjoyed meeting many folks with [...]
I mentioned in my previous post that I believed much of the backlash against TDD is more technical in nature than many in the .NET developer community have realized. This post is to expand on that thought a bit further. Many of the issues that .NET Developers have around doing TDD in C# is the [...]
It seems as though the .NET developer community is becoming more polarized regarding their thoughts on the value of Unit Testing. I see it as a split between those that are dogmatic about Unit Testing, and those that are in denial that it has any long term value. Some of this was spurred on by [...]
Software can often be a challenging product to sell. If you don’t have a great sales team, it can be difficult for anyone to know just how good your software is. Many great companies with fantastic software have fallen flat due to a lack of sales revenue that resulted in them being eclipsed by a [...]
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 [...]
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