It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken the Jean-Paul Boodhoo’s Nothin’ But .NET training course and I’ve had enough time and recuperate and reflect more on the experience. Although I really enjoyed the course and am glad I took it, it seems wrong to just give a blanket endorsement of the course. I just [...]
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I woke up this morning in a semi-zombie state and just learned that tonight will be our “late night”, which means we’ll go until 2 or 3 am instead of midnight. Nevertheless, I’m still enjoying the course. Here’s some thoughts about the second day of the course (yesterday). Actions, Predicates, and Funcs…Oh My – We [...]
I’m working on 2 hours of sleep last night thanks to my 17 month old, so I thought I would record some of my thoughts about my first day of training yesterday before they are completely lost in the haze of sleep deprivation and the blur of day two. Delegates are like onions: there are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Actually, it was more like a 5 Da’s punctuated by a steady stream of drool. That was the resounding praise that came from Sofia, my little 9 month old hacker princess. She was reviewing BabySmash, Scott Hanselman’s Windows adaptation of the Mac game AlphaBaby. In case you haven’t seen it, it is a game for [...]
I’m getting ready for a quiet New Year’s Eve at home with the family. This will be the first one in recent memory where I may actually remember what happened the next morning. Create Your Own Motivator Poster – I’m a big fan of the humorous anti-motivational posters that you can find on places like [...]
If you’re looking for an external, non-open source home for your code or a light-weight, web-based project management tool, I highly recommend using Unfuddle. Actually, up until recently I wasn’t all that crazy about this site. We had been using it at work for the last year as a project management tool for external clients [...]
Here are a few links to distract you from all the holiday family dysfunction. IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device – Leon Bambrick (a.k.a Secret Geek) serves up a wickedly funny post that pokes fun at SysAdmins…<excerpt>”The ‘self-clicking’ “next” button is set to revolutionize how computer users ‘Get Things Done’ — but a wave [...]
