I firmly believe that the answer to this question is…yes. A Little Background (a.k.a. My Hermit Roots) – Like most geeks, I’m an introverted fellow by nature. I’ve never had trouble mustering the requisite polish when it came to interacting with clients and executives on the job, but when given a choice I would always [...]
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As I mentioned in this last post, the Austin Alt.NET conference last fall was one of the best conferences that I had ever attended. Nevertheless, I liked the second one in Seattle this last weekend better. Here are a few reasons why: Alt.NET has finally been defined – There was quite a bit of time [...]
I’m currently en route to Seattle to attend my second ALT.NET conference, so I thought I would take the opportunity to organize some pre-conference thoughts. ALT.NET in a Nutshell (at least by my reckoning) Alt.NET is a nascent, loosely organized ideology that started as a vibrant blogosphere reaction to this post by David Laribee and [...]
I remember reading the eXtreme Programming Core Practices several years ago and smirking when I got to the practice that called for regular 40 hour work weeks for programmers. Like many of my fellow developers, I saw overtime as a geek badge of honor and felt pride at having enough stamina to regularly work 60-80 [...]
Don’t worry, I’m not going to join the growing ranks of developers with false claims of responsibility for the the Alt.NET pursefight blog (i.e. Bil Simser, Donald Belcham, Derik Whittaker, Sergio Pereira, Tom Openorth, David Woods, and Kyle Baley) . My confession is way more shocking. The more astute among you have noticed that D’Arcy [...]
