About a year ago I hit a patch where I wasn't able to blog much (something about finding a new job and planning to move cross country).  To bide time, I published Best of the Shade Tree Developer (with actual links!).  We're starting to pull together kind of a "Greatest Blog Hits" for a cheap way to jumpstart the ALT.NET knowledge base.  Just to get some of my stuff pulled together for that effort, here's what I think is my best posts from the last 15 months or so.

Don't worry guys, I won't put all of this stuff up on the new ALT.NET sites.

On Software Teams

I've been in a lot of spots over the last year where the element of decent teamwork wasn't quite what it should be.  I spent some time at DevTeach last spring hanging out with Rob Daigneau.  One of the things he kept saying was that "it's always a people problem."  I think I know what he means now.  You've got to put people in a position to succeed.  Here's my take on teamwork over a dozen or so posts.

• Developer/Tester colocation, what a novel concept - Of course, I'd settle for just having testers these days 
• The Will to be Good
• A Rant about the Software Lifecycle - We're all iterative or we're not iterative
• The Anti Team - the worst possible team
• Once Upon a Team - my ideal team
• Self Organizing Teams are Superior to Command n' Control Teams
• On Process and Practices
• Retrospectives
• On Software Teams
• Call me a Utopian, but I want my teams flat and my team members broad
• Strength at the Point of Attack

Maintainability

• Creating a Maintainable Software Ecosystem - This is going to be the core of one of my DevTeach talks in November
• My Programming Manifesto
• Composed Method Pattern - Some readers said this was just common sense.  It'd be nice if it were a bit more common.
• On Writing Maintainable Code
• Orthogonal Code
• What about Usability?
• The Anti Team
• Maintainability is "ility" #1
• The Don't Repeat Yourself Principle and the Wormhole Anti-Pattern
• The Road to Coding Hell is paved with Cobblestones of Expediency
• Designing for Testability
• Put Code Where You Would Expect to Find It

Agile Stuff

• My Gameplan for Starting a New Project from Scratch - This is getting an overhaul around the first of the year
• New Client, New Project - What do you want to know? - Take #2
• A Rant about the Software Lifecycle - We're all iterative or we're not iterative
• Noah, I want you to build an Ark - Vague user stories can't be estimated accurately
• Prioritizing by Technical Risk versus Business Value
• Trying to answer hard questions about Agile development

 Other Stuff

• Don't Let the Database Dictate Your Object Model
• Dispassionately Disregard Sunk Costs while Making Architectural Decisions
• Jay's TDD QuickStart, and the underlying problems he stumbled into
• Jeremy's Fourth Law of Test Driven Development: Keep Your Tail Short
• Bloom's Taxonomy and Design Patterns
• Removing the "Legacy" from your Code - Cleaning up legacy code and retrofitting tests in
• The Build Your Own CAB Series Table of Contents - This took up most of my blog over this past spring and summer.  Easily the most popular blog series I've ever done.
• What I've already done to be a better developer
• Dependency Injection Tools still have some good years left...