Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Today while reviewing some code* I came across the following: // TODO: Refactor this.
Followed by a lot of code which clearly needed some love and attention. Why is this code smell? Well it’s undone work just for starters. Someone checked this in and called it ...
Tags: Coding
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, NBody.net, p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
The best way to describe "inopportune" is to think of one of those completely generic Hollywood action movies; "Die Hard", "Die Harder", "Die a Lot", "True Lies" or "Big Fibs" –they're all the same really. Arnie, Bruce, Sly… Yawn. The point is... at some point in the movie ...
Tags: BritSpeak
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In a somewhat unusual turn of events I’ve actually found the time to write my decks for Agile 2009 early this year. This never happens! I invariably arrive at the venue with a 90% complete deck and fill in the blanks as I talk to attendees. However, this ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
About nine months ago we launched the patterns & practices Agile Showcase. Since then we’ve been slowly adding content. Yesterday we launched a new layout with additional content. A recommended books list, video browser and links to some useful tools. I was also asked to add an introduction. Which ...
Tags: agile, p&p
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