Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
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.
Maintainability
Agile Stuff
Other Stuff
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
