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A gracious reader in his comments noted that he wanted more New and Notables and I ensured him it was only for lack of time, especially when your commute involves airplanes-). BTW, I know there are a whole lot more readers; please take a minute to give me some feedback (even if you have in person) so I can tailor this blog for you, the reader. BTW, this is all being posted from IE7 in Windows Vista 5270.
I absolutely love Brian Marick's blog and every post in it. Brian is one of the giants of ourr Agile movement and especially as one of the co-creators of FIT. I highly recomend that you read his series, Working Yourself out of the Automated GUI Testing Tarpit, Parts 1-4
Speaking of great Agile blogs, Jim Shore is another giant in the Agile movement. It was my honor to have workedwith him closely for a 3 week Iteration in my group. He writes with authority and passion. Take a look at Cards, Table and Whiteboard: The Ultimate Planning Tool. To answer my reader's comment on Team System posts, we haven't (yet) find we needed or it was superior to Cards, Table and Whiteboard which puts all of our team's heads in the same game and is simple.
Another great Agile poster is Jeremy Miller who has two nice pieces on Mock Objects: The Bottle Brush of TDD and Why and When to Use Mock Objects. We use Mock Objects to some degree in our project but we have found some confusion on them especially with people on the team not used to them.
Lest you think I am all about Process and Agile Management and no “tech“ -), I continue to profit from Clemens Vaster's master posts on Teaching Indigo to do REST/POX, now in Parts 4 and 5. Also see perhaps the best explanation ever of pieces of COM+/ES with the Jita Pool.
Ok, I'm a bit tired of all the Ruby stuff from my best friends Brad, Peter and John and you too Steve. Indeed, you talk of nothing else Peter and Brad when I'm out west. I don't want to see another “Ruby is Cool“ post. We all know that. We know the advantages of dynamic languages in certain situations. What I want to hear instead Brad and John and this is a challenge to both of you my friends: tell me of a successful commercial software project that is being shipped with Ruby or better yet tell me how you personally use Ruby in your PAG and ObjectSharp deliverables. I want real projects not dreams and no this fictional one does not count-). I'm waiting-).
Brandon LeBlanc, my Longhorn Blogs cohort on playing with Vista far too early-) has a nice post on IIS7. You should read Brandon's blog as he really digs into Vista.
Speaking of Vista, I am continually adding to my post on what installs and works on Vista. So far its a good story with the exception of a certain control vendor-).
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