Archive for October, 2006

CruiseControl.NET for Running Static Analysis – Part 1

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

So I've been playing around with CruiseControl.NET this week. What I'd like it to do is run a bunch more static analysis tools in background on my machine. We have some similar tools at Microsoft for doing static analysis on developer machines so the code is constantly checked. This allows ...

Book List: Recommended

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Recommended Craig Larman: Agile & Iterative Development, A Manager's Guide Good overview of several popular agile processes Ken Schwaber: Agile Project Management with Scrum Companion book to Ken's course Barry Boehm, Richard Turner: Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed Mark F. Twight: Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres: Extreme ...

Patterns

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 ...