Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Tonight was the Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner. A lot of people, like me, who spend way too much of our time sitting in front of computers talking about... computers, and junk email and the US presidential primaries and probably a lot more I missed out on. I've not been to one ...
Tags: Events, Seattle
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I feel of all the *DD movements this one has the best chance of succeeding. Largely because unlike Test or Behavior Driven Development this requires people to only remember one letter, 'D'. It's also what a lot of people are doing already.
Tags: agile, TDD, Trivia
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
What's Unity? Here's the project description from the CodePlex site: "The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. Unity addresses the issues faced by developers engaged in component-based software engineering. Modern business applications consist of custom ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Why was I talking about interviewing again? Because I'm now managing the patterns & practices development team and we're hiring. If you read my blog you'll have a fair idea of what we do here at p&p.
Now you can come and be part of one of the patterns & practices ...
Tags: Microsoft, p&p, Seattle
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A long while ago I wrote a post about interviewing at Microsoft. Not much has really changed since then, although we don't ask those puzzle questions any more. So no need to brush up on your taxonomy of manhole covers but do expect to show that you can think logically.
Tags: Events, Microsoft
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