I blame it on being forced to sit through one too many episodes of my wife’s favorite TV show, What Not To Wear, but I finally became inspired to retire my old, tired-looking default Visual Studio color scheme in favor of one of the hipper ones with a black background. It turned out to be [...]
Browsing Posts published in January, 2009
Enjoying life after VSS. Next stop, Crucible… and then on to a possible replacement for CruiseControl (TeamCity or Bamboo). Saving the World via… TDD? – Steve Harman posts the best TDD code sample ever. It not only demonstrates the context/specification style specs but also clearly proves that TDD is our only hope of preventing the [...]
We’ve almost completed our first week on Subversion and all is well. Here are a few pieces of advice to those of you about to embark on a VSS to SVN migration of your own. Spend Time Getting Buy-In from all Developers BEFORE the Migration – Force feeding a new tool to your co-workers is a recipe for disaster. Developers who aren’t [...]
I just submitted a feature request to Microsoft. I thought that the perhaps the Windows Explorer file copy dialog could be a bit more truthful and instead of displaying something like this whenever a user is trying to copy something over 100 MB in size through Windows Explorer… …it should instead show something like this… [...]
I’m just relaxing after a long weekend of migrating our source control from VSS to SVN and upgrading our build server. It turned out to be a fairly sizable project due to all of our automated build scripts, so I’m glad it’s done. So long VSS. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass [...]
Here is a list of what I would most like to learn in the coming year. StructureMap – This is the one new technology that I will likely be able to implement at work in the first quarter, so I made it first on my list. I’ve been using the Dependency Injection pattern on an [...]
I recently installed YSlow, a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool that does performance analysis based on the rules for high performance web sites developed by Yahoo. I tried it on DosPecesCreations.com, the e-commerce site I recently built for my wife using Ruby on Rails, and was surprised to learn that [...]
Trying to recover from an injury that I got while playing WhirlyBall at a company team-building event. Don’t they know that bad things happen when hyper-focused programmers try to do things that require multi-tasking. Give and Take in the Software Industry – This is the Secret Geek’s version of The Joel Test and The programmer’s [...]
Here’s the second half of my whirlwind chronological tour of my past year from the perspective of my blog and technical life (see first half here): July: Take THAT legacy code – I didn’t write a single post during this month, however I had a very productive time at work as a result of finally [...]
Here’s the first half of a whirlwind chronological tour of my past year from the perspective of my blog and technical life: Jan: Blogging Without a Net – I started off the year with a resolution to cast off the safety net of the massive GeeksWithBlogs blogging collective and venture out on my own. In [...]
