Active Directory Notes
04 June 2015Display User Details in Domain
June, 2015
May, 2015
The Software Paradox - Stephen O'Grady
30 May 2015I found this article extremely useful. It gives the histroy on pricing software and why old models are no longer working.
Hackers and Painters, P Graham - O'Reilly Media
30 May 2015After reading Hackers and Painters I can honestly say it wasn’t what I was expecting. While I didn’t find every page of the book riveting, I still found value in reading it and would recommend it to others.
What happened when we killed stand ups and everything else...
21 May 2015The Team
Software Quality Wheels
16 May 2015I recently read Jessica Kerr’s blog post on the quality wheel. In general, I loved her idea of being able to use it to further refine specific aspects of quality software systems. One aspect of her wheel that I didn’t agree with was putting beautiful code as the center item...
Writing Notes
12 May 2015No matter what one writes, no matter how carefully one tries to articulate it, a non-trivial segment of the readership will interpret it differently from what one intended - J.B. Rainsberger
J Curve Effect
11 May 2015General
Frustrations in learning something new...
09 May 2015Over the last three weeks it appears that I have developed either ‘carpal tunnel syndrome’ or something similar. It began with occasional numbness in one or two of my fingers on my right hand and has rapidly progressed to be almost constant across both my hands. It is frustrating, painful...
TeamCity Notes
04 May 2015Setting a TeamCity Build Number from Console
April, 2015
Accelerated Learning for our Student Program
27 April 2015Over the last few years we’ve had an experiment going - each year over our ‘quiet’ month we would take a handful of students from Varsity and give them ‘work’ experience. It’s been an interesting experience with some insights gained. While we haven’t gotten everything right, I wanted to share...
Pair Programming Notes
09 April 2015Pair programming increases quality and allows devs to discuss and challenge some of the common decisions that they make their own. Pairing helps break down silos that often form within software development teams. Everybody on the team has different ideas on how to do things and those different ideas need...
Safe Refactoring Pattern - Move Instance Method
01 April 2015Goal
March, 2015
SSL Certificate Notes
30 March 2015Different types of classes
Kano Model
30 March 2015General
The Dance of Intimacy, H Lerner
26 March 2015Having read and enjoyed a few ‘self help’ books like A Road Less Travelled and Steve Biddulphs book Manhood - My Mother-in-Law lent me this book to read. Being a man, I guess I am not the ‘targeted’ audience and I found it a fairly long read. That said, it...
Kanban, D. Anderson
26 March 2015Warning: This book is not just about Kanban - it goes a lot deeper than that. This is possibly the best text I’ve read at a practices level to implementing agile methodologies in large/corporate organizations. I wish I had read this book years ago!
CSS Notes
19 March 2015Linking CSS
Bootstrap Notes
19 March 2015Bootstrap 3
Scrumagalo
17 March 2015Where did Scrumagalo come from?
What I mean when I say I am developing software...
16 March 2015What Software Developers Do
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