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• Note to Self: Rolling Wave project scheduling

  I need to check out Rolling Wave project scheduling when I have a chance. I've been looking at Mark Graban's kanban blog and digging into the articles he has linked - it's fun reading. I've got a couple of blog topics that will fall out of this, but in... Posted Jul 12 2005, 08:40 AM by shebert with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Working effectively with Legacy Code

  I was looking for a book that deals with legacy code in a TDD environment and came across "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" at Roy Osherove's blog . Darrell's and Roy's blogs continue to be my 'goto' for resources on the TDD topic. Posted Jul 05 2005, 09:33 AM by shebert with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Getting mono::live running on VPC

  I ran into some problems getting the mono::live boot cd running under VPC until I came across a blog post by Christoph Wille . This is a nice writeup and addresses the problem quickly. Posted Jun 24 2005, 09:25 AM by shebert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Sql Server Service Broker Challenge

  Here's a reminder to myself... I need to get the June CTP and connect using service broker to Rushi Desai's Broker Challenge ... Posted Jun 16 2005, 03:26 PM by shebert with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Testing Legacy Code preso - via Roy Osherove's blog

  Roy Osherove posted a link to his presentation on testing legacy code at the last Agile Israel meeting. Posted Jun 07 2005, 08:00 PM by shebert with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Note to Self: Plugin discoveryand Reflection

  Here's a decent article on plugin discovery and reflection from Roy Osherove's blog . The blog discusses the memory overhead issues of testing a lart number of assemblies. Posted May 23 2005, 08:21 AM by shebert with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Master Page under VS2003 - a nice writeup

  I've run across this Master-Page implementation discussion by Shams Muhktar several times over the past year. I really like the write-up for its clarity so I thought I'd take a moment to capture it for good. Posted May 19 2005, 11:59 AM by shebert with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• DHTML Lemmings game

  Here's a DHTML Lemmings game . I remember when this game was a compelling reason to buy a Commodore Amiga. Posted Mar 08 2005, 06:39 AM by shebert with Filed under: Note to Self

• Recycling the ASP.NET worker process at set intervals

  Many ASP.NET developers are not aware of the ability to restart the ASP.NET worker process at given intervals in code. While IIS6.0 makes a number of these features available through the UI, most of the features can be used in IIS5 and 5.1 as well. I... Posted Mar 07 2005, 01:23 PM by shebert with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Garbage Collection articles

  I've run into the need for these articles on the .Net garbage collector a couple of times in the past month - I thought I'd blog them so I know where they are. The first two were written prior to .Net's release by Jeffrey Richter. The third article is... Posted Mar 07 2005, 01:13 PM by shebert with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Note to Self

• Multi-threaded development and Petri nets article

  Every couple of years I go looking for this article by Ruedigger Ashe on MSDN about detecting the possibility of deadlocks within a multithreaded application. The article, published in 1994, really applies to any concurrent locking application (i.e. database... Posted Feb 17 2005, 06:27 AM by shebert with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Note to Self