Time for another salvo of moving pictures! John catches us up on the IronRuby and shows some under-the-covers architecture of the DLR at the ALT.NET Open Spaces, Seattle event. I didn't get the whole thing, but there's some good stuff especially for folks that may have fallen out of touch with...

Its true. Too much money is available to IT. As a business with too much money assigned to an IT budget, you’re allowed to have teams completely fail, miserably, and when they do, you just throw more money at it. Lack of money isn’t the problem. The failures will still exist. Mediocre developers can...

I'm just back from Omaha, NE where I spoke at the Heartland Developers Conference . This was my 2nd time speaking at this conference, and I got to say, I really like the conference that Joe Olsen and Phil Wolfe have put together. It isn't your prototypical large conference (even though they had...

I'm sitting on a plane, traveling (late) to Remix Boston and mulling over the ALT.NET Open Spaces conference. It was a great experience that exceeded my expectations by a mile. Here's my (long-winded and roughly-cut, sorry) perspective on events: Brass Tacks The people attending made it a really...

I had this discussion briefly at BarCamp Dallas yesterday. The question came up as to how do I describe scrum to my client? When going into a new client, I don’t. There are a lot of companies out there that are reading about scrum and learning scrum on their own, and then want to hire somebody to come...

I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

Previously I discussed some issues with modopt . Well there are more. In total I have logged three issues (could be many more as nearly every language I have looked at has the same problems). I figured I would put up some links and describe each issue here. C# specification does not define modopt varying...