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  • Agile concerns with responses

    Our very own Steve Eichert recently posted on the skeptics' view of agile . It has taken a while, but I have compiled responses to each of the original concerns, in order. Too disorganized I’ve always been a little leery about using XP to manage projects. To me, XP is much more of a development-focused...

  • Name that Product

    Here is a quote from an "exceptional" leader in a particular industry (extra credit goes to the first person that can name the product (no googling!)): "I suggest you look at both what you are building and how you are operating and challenge yourself. Are you really doing anything exceptional? And here...

  • What is a requirement?

    Brady Gaster asks what is a requirement ? It is hard to define a requirement. I can say that a requirement is something that is required for (in this case) a software system, but that is a circular definition. So instead, I'll say that a requirement is something that reflects a business need. By this...

  • Crossing the (Microsoft) Chasm

    I was reading Geoffrey Moore’s excellent book Crossing the Chasm the other day and it describes the situation between Windows and Linux exactly. The section on competitive positioning shows that early in a technology products' life the focus is, appropriately enough, product-centric. This is good for...

  • Help with wbloggar?

    Anyone know how to setup w.bloggar on DotNetJunkies? I tried using Scott's directions , but I keep getting the following error: w.bloggar: -1072896766 Unable to parse the XML response. Parser Reason:A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found. What?

  • For those who refuse to reuse or refactor

    “We will never catch up. We will never fill all the capacity that Moore's law is heaping on us. The way we get more functionality these days is by doing more and more leveraging of existing infrastructure and existing applications. As systems are becoming longer lived, versioning is becoming more important...

  • Code Reviews

    For reasons I’ve mentioned before, I think that at some point during the project, when things are fairly well understood, developers should work individually. On a recently completed project, our early efforts were almost exclusively pair programming. In the later stages of the project, we split up and...

  • Business Cards

    Paul Vick's post on ordering small batches of business cards reminds me of a story from my former company. You see, for the entire 2 years and 2 months I was there, I never got business cards. Not that I didn't want them, but I was actually prevented from getting them. It all started when, as a new employee...

  • Odd Todd on PrimeTime Monday

    Just a warning that this post way far off from any .NET-related topic. My apologies in advance. I don't know if anyone watched PrimeTime Monday tonight (9/15/03), maybe you did because it was right before Monday Night Football, but the cartoon at the end was made by a guy named Odd Todd . I didn't see...

  • Milk carton bug reports

    Raymond Chen writes a particularly humorous post about whimsical bug reports . Paul Vick follows it up . Then Paul posts another one on the C++ build chime.

  • Being successful doesn't make you evil

    Rory rants : “I think that it's [Microsoft] often misrepresented by people who haven't done even the slightest bit of research into the place, and all too often the negative aspects are considered without any attention at all paid to the good things that MS and its employees do.” … “MS is not a bad place...

  • Code Access Security blogs and posts and security goodness

    Two good CAS-related blog posts: Greg Fee posts in a Brumme-like manner on security demand evaluation . Greg's blog is about .NET security exclusively, and he's already got some good posts on security speed and network shares. Ivan Medvedev posts on writing managed code for semi-trusted environment ...

  • How to make your customers' customers happy

    "Make your customers' customers happy." This is one of those big hand-wavy statements that big consulting firms spew out at $250 per hour, or big research firms spew out at $10,000 per report, but nobody knows what it really means. So, entirely for free , I'm going to show you how to apply this statement...

  • Shirky on Micropayments

    Clay Shirky , with his usual insight, talks about the trend toward free content and how the latest micropayment service, BitPass, will fail just like all the rest. About all of us bloggers he writes: Weblogs, in particular, represent a huge victory for voluntarily subsidized content. The weblog world...

  • All TechEd 2003 Material available online!

    You can get access to all of the material from TechEd 2003 . Not just PowerPoints, but also an audio recording of the live session with the PowerPoint presentation in sync! Very cool. [via Peter Provost ]
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