Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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Agile/Software Development/ALT.NET The Art of Agile Development: Collective Code Ownership Raymond provides an entry into lean methodologies Jeffery was on the Software Quality Isn't Optional panel and the video is available The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool...
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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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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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Chad got as chance to put up the full Neuparts DDD + SOA demos on CodePlex ; both the Ordering and Shipping Services while I was out in Redmond. As the topic in the discussion forums says: Greetings. I would like to thank everyone for checking out this project, and appreciate all of the early feedback...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Steve has an excellent post on refactoring code from "Manager" classes that implemented Evan's DDD Repoistory pattern to classes that used the ActiveRecord pattern. Like Steve, I have also had a lot of success in using ActiveRecord in my designs and cleaning up the architecture. The issue...
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Steve has an excellent post on refactoring code from "Manager" classes that implemented Evan's DDD Repoistory pattern to classes that used the ActiveRecord pattern. Like Steve, I have also had a lot of success in using ActiveRecord in my designs and cleaning up the architecture. The issue that...
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I have been in Austin Texas the last 2 days joining my CodeBetter mates Jeffery Palermo , Jeremy Miller and the one and only Scott Bellaware last night for a bbq at Jeff's house in Leander, TX. Jeff talks about it here . Then I gave a 2 hour talk on Extreme Programming with .NET to an overflow audience...
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I have been in Austin Texas the last 2 days joining my CodeBetter mates Jeffery Palermo , Jeremy Miller and the one and only Scott Bellaware last night for a bbq at Jeff's house in Leander, TX. Jeff talks about it here . Then I gave a 2 hour talk on Extreme Programming with .NET to an overflow audience...
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My buddy Jim Shore has produced a very important article that, in my opinion, really moves forward the discussion of what constitutues good software design from an abstract sense to some concrete observable elements. What do I mean by abstract? When I used to hang around Ward's Wiki and the Patterns...
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My buddy Jim Shore has produced a very important article that, in my opinion, really moves forward the discussion of what constitutues good software design from an abstract sense to some concrete observable elements. What do I mean by abstract? When I used to hang around Ward's Wiki and the Patterns...
Continue reading "What Quantifies Good Software Design: Quality With a Name"
