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Low-tech Project Management

Steve Maine tells us about his favorite project management methodology , wall-Gantts. A wall-Gantt is a Gantt chart that is created with paper, string and note cards on a wall. How's that for low-tech? Speaking from personal experience, there's nothing like a nice big visible physical artifact. Probably...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2003 1:27 PM by Darrell Norton
Agile Software Development by the numbers

From Agile Software Development, A DACS State-of-the-Art Report : Agile projects reported an increase in productivity of 15-23 percent, a 5-7 percent decrease in costs, and a 25-50 percent reduction in time-to-market. 84 percent of agile projects have 10 developers or less. Pair programming takes 15...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2003 8:15 AM by Darrell Norton
RSS Feed for ASP.NET Articles

Just wanted to post the RSS feed for the ASP.NET homepage [via Kent Sharkey ]: The 'recent articles' list from www.asp.net is now available via RSS (you'll see the shiny new XML button) or click: http://www.asp.net/modules/articleRss.aspx?count=7&mid=64

Published Tue, Nov 25 2003 10:54 AM by Darrell Norton
The Benefits of Assigning a Non-default Value to Enums

As part of our current application, we are often using enums for the various benefits they bring. One problem I ran into, though, is not assigning a non-zero (for integer enums) default value to the enum. Why would this be a problem? Well, when I want to use Debug.Assert to check the preconditions on...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2003 9:04 AM by Darrell Norton
Scrum Overview

“Stable (defined) and unstable (random) systems are the extremes. What is novel is the concept of something in between – chaotic behavior. It refers to systems which display behavior which, though it has certain regularities, defies prediction. Think of the weather as we have known it. Despite...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2003 6:19 AM by Darrell Norton
SQL Server performance optimization, the joy of indexes

Another project was having some performance-related problems, so I was called in to review some of the stored procs to see if I could reduce the execution time. As a brief overview, this part of the application pulled data from a data warehouse and stored it in a data mart. Due to client requirements...

Published Fri, Nov 21 2003 11:18 AM by Darrell Norton
A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

Keith Brown is developing an online book, A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security . Keith Brown has his new security book online. And when I say “online”, I mean he’s actually writing the darn thing right there on his web page. Even better, the book has an RSS feed . Subscribed...

Published Wed, Nov 19 2003 8:31 PM by Darrell Norton
"Investigating .NET" articles about reflection and .NET languages

Jason Bock, author of Applied .NET Attributes , CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET , and .NET Security , is now posting a series of articles called "Investigating .NET". These were chapters from a book he was writing, so the writing is good and there are code samples. He will be posting them to...

Published Wed, Nov 19 2003 4:17 PM by Darrell Norton
TestRunner add-in for Visual Studio updated to work with NUnit v2.1

I noted on my .NET Test Driven Development article that I had problems getting TestRunner to work with NUnit v2.1. Well all that has changed now. Will Ballard sent me an email saying the he had updated TestRunner to play nice with the stock NUnit 2.1 and uploaded it to the site. I downloaded it late...

Published Tue, Nov 18 2003 5:50 AM by Darrell Norton
Review of Agile and Iterative Development by Craig Larman

Agile and Iterative Development , by Craig Larman A lot of people are looking for proof of the effectiveness of agile software development methods. Managers are looking for hard facts and data with balanced discussion on the pros and cons of agile. Developers are looking for supporting material to convince...

Published Sun, Nov 16 2003 7:45 PM by Darrell Norton
Review of Programming Visual Basic .NET by Jesse Liberty

Programming Visual Basic .NET 2nd ed. , by Jesse Liberty Probably the best way to learn how to code in any language is to program with the examples in the book. I'm an experienced programmer in C#, but needed to get up to speed on VB.NET quick for some consulting work. I won a copy of Programming Visual...

Published Sat, Nov 15 2003 7:59 AM by Darrell Norton
Which CLR-compliant language will you use in Yukon, Part 2

I posted a link to the SQL Server magazine poll in an earlier post . Well, the results are in! It seems C# is favored, with VB.NET and T-SQL about the same in second place. Which CLR-compliant language will you use to write server-side code when Yukon is deployed? Total Responses: 469 Visual Basic .NET...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2003 11:23 AM by Darrell Norton
Is it possible to set the value of a read-only textbox client-side and access the result server-side?

I coworker of mine is having trouble accessing the value of a read-only textbox set via client-side script: If you are like me you want to use as much client-side power as you can. Part of communicating the results of this power to the ASP.NET code on the server often involves populating an from client...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2003 5:37 AM by Darrell Norton
.NET Test Driven Development update

I've updated .NET Test Driven Development with an additional 32 links, doubling the original number of links. Updates include: Lessons Learned in Software Testing a book by Cem Kaner, James Bach, and Bret Pettichord Testing for Programmers - notes from a half-day course (114 pages!) by Brian Marick,...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2003 5:03 AM by Darrell Norton
What's that smell? Bad code smells and what to do about them

Steve Maine writes an excellent post on " code smells ". Things that I try to keep a look out for: Code that seems too familiar . If it seems familiar, it probably means I've already written something similar elsewhere and should think about refactoring to eliminate duplication. Functions that scroll...

Published Wed, Nov 12 2003 5:52 AM by Darrell Norton

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Low-tech Project Management

Agile Software Development by the numbers

RSS Feed for ASP.NET Articles

The Benefits of Assigning a Non-default Value to Enums

Scrum Overview

SQL Server performance optimization, the joy of indexes

A .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

"Investigating .NET" articles about reflection and .NET languages

TestRunner add-in for Visual Studio updated to work with NUnit v2.1

Review of Agile and Iterative Development by Craig Larman

Review of Programming Visual Basic .NET by Jesse Liberty

Which CLR-compliant language will you use in Yukon, Part 2

Is it possible to set the value of a read-only textbox client-side and access the result server-side?

.NET Test Driven Development update

What's that smell? Bad code smells and what to do about them