Friday, August 15th, 2008
One of the things that really impressed me at the conference was Industrial Logic's Agile eLearning product/project. I went to two good talks by Joshua Kerievsky (refactoring) and Brian Foote (patterns) both of which demo'ed their eLearning stuff. It's arranged in albums and makes lots of use of videos. ...
Tags: Agile, Coding, News & events, Patterns, TDD, Toronto
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Ever been faced with one of those tricky design or architectural questions? Maybe the team is divided or a key decision maker is a seagull. But you need to move forward quickly.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the Architectural Magic Eight Ball, beloved by senior developers and architects everywhere. Solve ...
Tags: Best practices, p & p, Patterns
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Jason Hogg wrote a post about our discussion on patterns vs. tooling at the p&p Summit. This was a fun panel to be on, largely because of the great input we got from the audience.
Wojtek and I were presenting the patterns in tools standpoint, tooling that uses patterns and includes ...
Tags: Patterns
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
This post actually started out as my TDD and DSLs post but I got sidetracked into trying to describe an anti-pattern I'd noticed in a some of the unit tests we wrote as part of Service Factory: Modeling Edition. I came across James Carr's excellent TDD anti-patterns post which got me ...
Tags: Coding, Patterns, TDD
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
I'll be speaking at this year's patterns and practices Summit, along with a host of other people, including all the usual suspects.
I'll be talking about Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition with Bob Brumfield and Dragos, Wojtek, Jason and I will be doing something on our patterns survey and the ...
Tags: News & events, p & p, Patterns, Seattle, Software factories
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
In the patterns & practices (p&p) group at Microsoft we have been using software patterns for several years. I'm working with a couple of colleagues on gauging how the folks employing the guidance coming out of p&p (such as guides, application blocks, software factories and reference implementations) have, are, and ...
Tags: Patterns
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
As you can see I'm currently reading "Head First Design Patterns". This is all part of my strategy to not grow pointy hair and glaze over when developers talk code to me. After all what good is a lead who can't mentor their team?
Despite the dubious cover this turns out to ...
Tags: Books, Coding, Patterns
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