My friend Mario Cardinal is quite happy these days. He works with the Urban Turtle team and they received significant support from Microsoft. Brian Harry, who is the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server, has published an outstanding blog post about Urban Turtle that says: " ...awesome...
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As my good friend, Rick Garibay blogs , we still need to raise the bar. "Unfortunately, we’ve also learned that too many individuals and shops have given Agile Software Development a bad name by using it as a fig leaf to hide behind delivering crappy software and calling it agile, further...
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Jeremy, as always, has a lot of interesting things to say in his latest Train of Thought . I agree with most of what he said, in particular with evolutionary design, as Steve Eichert and I practiced it at Algo . It is important to not "allow your design thinking and abstractions get ahead of your...
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Ayende said Let me start by saying that I absolutely reject this statement: [The] database model is going to support far more than your application The database model is private to the application, and is never shared with the outside world. If you need to access to my data, here is the service URL,...
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Community is all about building bridges and the greater good of the community. I want to thank Scott Bellware and Jeremy Miller for engaging in hours of positive, honest dialogue. They were both fanstatic in their desire to move forward in a very positive manner. I also want to give special thanks to...
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Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...
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Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients and others...
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Writing Maintainable Code Cross-Posted from CB Blog Some very exciting and necessary discussions have broken out in the community about writing maintainable code and the different trade offs in projects. The discussion originated with Ayende's Maintainable, but for whom? post which had the section I...
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I said this in response to jdn on Ayende's blog: > In a perfect world, you can build a better architecture, teach people along the way, etc. I am on a 2 million dollar large software product. I would call that the real world. A year ago, 6 out of the 8 developers had never heard of TDD, DDD, O/RM...
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