Monthly Archives: January 2006

I’ve had 3-4 different conversations this week on the proper size of a user story.  My opinion is to simply slice your user stories into the smallest chunks of work that are still:   A.)  Testable B.)   Provide some sort … Continue reading →

We finally coaxed our colleague, Gary Williams, to start blogging.  One of my main sources of entertainment is now bringing his act to the blogosphere.    The feed is http://archivedeveloper.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I’m finally getting very active in creating the next StructureMap release.  Someone had suggested to me that I include a list in the website of some of the places and projects that are using StructureMap in their development.  If you’re using … Continue reading →

If you haven’t read it before, go check out Joel’s Law of Leaky Abstractions.   I bumped into some code in one of our projects last week that is a classic case of a leaky abstraction.  It looked something like this: … Continue reading →

Len Holgate recently made a good post on the dangers of runaway prototypes.  Len shares a story of letting prototype code cross the line into production code and paying the consequences.    We’ve all been there.  Many of the worst, … Continue reading →

Our laptops at work are a little shy on memory and with Visual Studio w/ReSharper/Sql Server/IIS going all the time the hard drive light basically never goes off.  On top of that, our laptop model has a reputation for hard … Continue reading →