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 formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

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 we should all be called engineers or not which...

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. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

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. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

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 the team was able to finish a critical and complex...

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 Sink being a stand up guy and blogger community figure...

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 pain in the ass to troubleshoot. So, I haven't...

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, and for the most part are willing to bend a client...

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 releases are on time and of sufficient quality, I'm...

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 Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...