Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
A couple of weeks back I spoke at the Seattle XP Users Group. The other speaker was Dr Neil who's talk was a discussion around "Planning is a waste of time". The were lots of interesting viewpoints, some of the ideas that came up during the discussion:
The longer you spend planning the more ...
Tags: agile, Events, Seattle
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
This paper was just published on MSDN; Tools for Agility - A White paper by Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute
Microsoft has invited me to share my thoughts on the relationship between tools and agile software development. Agile development seeks to increase the value of software development by increasing the feedback ...
Tags: agile
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with software...
The Susan and I have been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica (BsG) season three recently. She bought it for my birthday and we've been working our way through it. In BsG the pilots call each other by their callsigns; ...
Tags: Trivia
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I was mucking around with code snippets over the weekend - it killed the time in between feeling sick. As my unit testing framework of choice is XUnit I thought I've have a go at adding a snippet or two around that.
xUnit already comes with a nice code snippet for ...
Tags: C#, Code snippets, TDD, Visual Studio, xUnit
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Given that occasionally I'm prone to playing the odd game on my home computer I didn't want a lot of the services that are only used for development running all the time. Solution... use the Services tab in the Computer Management console and configure them to start manually. Then use ...
Tags: Coding, PowerShell, Visual Studio
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