Eric Wise

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• See you at TheRuntime.com

  I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first... Posted Nov 12 2007, 10:43 AM by Eric Wise with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: ASP .NET, Business / IT, C#, Patterns and Practices, Personal, Rants, SQL, VB .NET

• Followup: Rejecting Software Engineering

  Pretty fun post actually, sparked a lot of debate and good examples on both sides. So I got to thinking tonight and the funny thing about that post is that I was talking about why I reject the title of engineer and of course it led to a debate about whether... Posted Jun 28 2007, 10:44 PM by Eric Wise with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices

• Rejecting Software Engineering

  When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not... Posted Jun 26 2007, 10:39 AM by Eric Wise with | with 64 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Looking Back: Keys To Project Success Part 1

  For the last few months, I've been rather scarce while we put the finishing touches on the new enterprise software that runs the company I work for. I've been meaning to kick off a series of blog posts on what worked, what didn't, and why... Posted Jun 24 2007, 05:41 PM by Eric Wise with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices

• Hello Vault

  Being that I was so irritated with Team System dying on me, in addition to the relative immaturity of the interface there, I decided upon return from Tech Ed to change direction and move the team to SourceGear's Vault product. In addition to Eric... Posted Jun 11 2007, 10:52 PM by Eric Wise with | with no comments Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices

• Bye Bye Team Foundation Server

  Ya know, I really tried to give team foundation server a fair shake. My opinion on it is as follows: It's a generally better source control system than source safe. It's really expensive. It's a pain in the ass to administrate. It's a... Posted May 31 2007, 02:32 PM by Eric Wise with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Lobbying for change in the consulting industry

  I think most people who have been in the IT industry for an average amount of time can agree with my perception that for the most part, the consulting industry is garbage. Consultants are expensive, usually on par or worse than your full time employees... Posted Feb 12 2007, 09:59 AM by Eric Wise with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• Evaluating a major/minor release (developer metrics)

  Developer metrics are hard . We all know this. Development is part science, part logic, and part creativity. As such, it is difficult to measure how well your developers are doing their jobs. Personally, on my teams I tend to manage by results. If the... Posted Nov 11 2006, 09:01 PM by Eric Wise with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices

• Codebetter does job searches better!

  It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like... Posted Oct 10 2006, 08:19 AM by Eric Wise with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Personal, SQL, Easy Web Applications, VB .NET, ASP .NET, Patterns and Practices, C#

• Know Your Role

  Nothing is more dangerous than a programmer pushed into a DBA role who doesn't know crap about databases. Too often, you see consultancies, smaller organizations, and people in general trying to save a buck and not bring any DBA presence on board... Posted Aug 28 2006, 06:37 PM by Eric Wise with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• Thursday Thoughts

  The more projects I see the results of where the customer lives in a vacuum, the more convinced I become that for a project to be very successful there must be close ties between the developers and the customers. For those of you familiar with the latest... Posted Jun 30 2005, 08:01 AM by Eric Wise with | with no comments Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices

• Refactoring Easy Assets .NET - Part 1 of ?

  Since I'm diving heads first into refactoring Easy Assets .NET I figured I'd post some messages on what exactly I'm doing, my thought processes behind it, and how I think the application and especially the users will benefit. Note that I highlight the... Posted Mar 01 2005, 06:36 PM by Eric Wise with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: ASP .NET, Business / IT, Easy Web Applications, Patterns and Practices

• Codesmith rocks!

  If you haven't already purchased a copy of codesmith , please do so, I'll wait... This is by far the best bang for my buck I've ever gotten out of a non microsoft tool. Case in point: I've been making tweaks to the database schema for Easy Assets .NET... Posted Feb 28 2005, 08:02 PM by Eric Wise with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices