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Coding Blind: Changing the Paradigm from Managing By Bug to Managing by Process

posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:47 AM by mitchell
"Driving a project from bug data alone is like driving a car with your eyes closed and only turning the wheel when you hit something." - Sam Guckenheimer I was reading Guckenheimer's book, Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Read More
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Butting Heads with the Head Buts: Innovation and Generic Implementations

posted Friday, January 25, 2008 12:09 PM by mitchell
I'd like to coin a new word, genericization, mostly because it's fun to say, but it's hard not to go back and try and correct that red squiggly line. Anyway, I didn't really want to talk about new words and automatic spell-checking. What I really want Read More
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If you're not laughing when you're done reading,

posted Friday, January 04, 2008 12:28 PM by mitchell
then you're not a programmer with relatives... (from the Daily WTF): Best of the Sidebar- Could You Explain Programming Please Read More
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VS2008 Hands-on Lab Nuggets

posted Friday, December 07, 2007 2:03 PM by mitchell
A - Got a chance to play with HALO 3 in the lobby. Wow. Makes me want to get a box. 1 - WCF is the communication platform for Microsoft for the next 10 years at least (right out of the Microsoft mouth) That means that Remoting, ASMX, etc. are all legacy Read More
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MSCONFIG on Steroids

posted Friday, November 30, 2007 6:58 AM by mitchell
Just ran across this little gem: Autoruns Read More
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Pat Helland - Accountants Don't Use Erasers

posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:37 PM by mitchell
Pat Helland's got a fascinating post on his blog called "Accountants Don't Use Erasers." It's a must read, and here are the two major points: 1) You don't really ever delete ANYTHING.  As a matter of fact, you don't update anything either... You Read More
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Business and IT Interactions Summed Up: Anxious Anticipation of Failure

posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:15 PM by mitchell
In working on my most recent project, I've come to the conclusion that, fundamentally, the business folks on any given project are always operating under the position that they are to 'anxiously anticipate failure.' It seems to me that the business side Read More
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Sequence Diagram Generator

posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:29 AM by mitchell
I don't know about you...but I absolutely dislike drawing out this documentation by hand. So, let me tell you that I was pleasantly surprised to see this Sequence Diagram Generator from Nauman Leghari's blog. After waiting an interminable amount of time Read More
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Is Politics a Four Letter Word?

posted Monday, April 09, 2007 12:21 PM by mitchell
Interesting post on GeekLeaders.com about politics in the workplace, and, specifically, what the IT response to it should be. I've always understood what he's saying, but I've never quite seen it stated so succinctly. I suppose that now we'll have start Read More
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Microsoft Expression Products Added to MSDN

posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:10 PM by mitchell
Looks like Microsoft will be adding their Expression products to the MSDN downloads...finally: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/03/expression-added-to-msdn.aspx Read More
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St. Louis Code Camp

posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:41 AM by mitchell
Once again, Brian Button has organized another Code Camp for St. Louis. The site is live and ready for your attendance or presentation information. Viva la Code! Read More
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Developer Inertia: Specialization is for Insects

posted Monday, December 11, 2006 8:13 PM by mitchell
With a nod to my recent quotes post from Robert Heinlein, we've been having this discussion (I call it a discussion; it's more like random sniping) at work. The question, of course, is whether or not we should encourage or promote specializaton amongst Read More
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Custom vs. Customizable

posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:04 AM by mitchell
I'm currently working on an application to make online reporting a little more standardized and deliverable from both an IT and business perspective. What's really interesting is the pushback I am receiving, from both sides, because of the perceived attempt Read More
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We develop for more than money?

posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:46 AM by mitchell
Software by Rob has a new post titled, "Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money," and it's well worth the read. Here's the list of items: Being Set Up to Succeed Having Excellent Management Learning New Things Exercising Creativity and Solving the Read More
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Cruisin' Right Along

posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:59 AM by mitchell
I've been playing with CruiseControl.NET for the last couple of days. Let me just say that it's very cool. Once you get around the learning curve of how to set up a project, it's ridiculously easy to use. So far, I've only used an MSBuild task. Next step Read More
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