Mike Roberts has created Tree Surgeon, an open source product that creates a .NET Development Tree just like his great posts. [via Lasse’s weblog]

As you’ve probably guessed from the title, I’m moving my blog. The new location is: http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/ And the new RSS feed is:http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/Rss.aspx I brought over all the posts as well, so all my content can be found at the new location. Why move? Brendan and I decided to start...

As you’ve probably guessed from the title, I’m moving my blog. The new location is: http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/ And the new RSS feed is:http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/Rss.aspx I brought over all the posts as well, so all my content can be found at the new location. Why move? Brendan and I decided to start...

Ken Schwaber, one of the two developers of Scrum (the site has recently been updated, so go check it out), has an interview on ITConversations: You Thought it was Easy: Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects The benefits of Agile are many, the implementation is easy, and the problems are daunting. Ken Schwaber, Senior Consultant, Cutter...

Reginald Braithwaite-Lee posted four very nice agile software development slide decks (the summaries are his words, not mine): Scrum: One Person's Perspective: Shortly after obtaining my certification in the Scrum development methodology (I'm now a "Certified Scrum Master"), I gave this outline of Scrum to the Toronto Chapter of the Software...

CruiseControl.NET v.0.8 is out. CruiseControl.NET Server Breaking Change - Force Build Interval Trigger and Polling Interval Trigger have been replaced by Interval Trigger, and the Force Build Schedule Trigger and Polling Schedule Trigger have been replaced by Schedule Trigger. Introduced a Filter Trigger to turn off integration at certain...

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My life is so much easier now. Why? I finally got work to purchase the SQL Bundle from red-gate software. SQL Bundle is just a combination of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, and DTS Compare, but for less money than buying just 2 of these products individually (only $350). I do have a few missing features on my wish list already: Using Data...

Although Pythonwin is nice, it’s a basic IDE. It doesn't have the feeling of power you get from Visual Studio. Fortunately, a reader left a comment about a cool, free Python IDE called SPE (Stani’s Python Editor). SPE has a bunch of cool features: Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips,...

Artima posted a 6-part series of interviews with Guido van Rossum (weblog), creator of Python. Here are the six parts in order. The Making of PythonPython creator Guido van Rossum talks with Bill Venners about Python's history, the influence of the ABC language, and Python's original design goals. Python's Design GoalsPython creator Guido van...

Hopefully I’ve convinced you to learn Python this year. Or maybe Sam Gentile did (Sam’s Python category). Either way you’re wondering how to start learning Python. Python.org The Python home page has a lot of information, so much so that it is bewildering to the new Python user. Skip the “What is Python?” page link...

We’ve got our next meeting on tonight, January 11th at the ESI in Newport News; 7 PM is the start and we’ll have nerd-working beginning at 6:30 PM. For directions to the ESI location in Newport News, see www.WeProgram.Net. Microsoft’s Geoff Snowman will be presenting on Visual Studio Team System: Visual Studio Team System...

Shortly after I blogged about learning Python in 2005, I found out via Steve that several other people (Sam Gentile, John Lam, and Steve Eichert himself) are doing it too. I wasn’t following their lead in picking a language, but I’m glad to be in good company! The reasons why I chose to learn a new language, and the reasons behind...

The unread tabs extension for Firefox keeps the tab title text italicized until you’ve read the tab. Handy for keeping up with which tabs you’ve read if you open a lot of links in the background (that and middle-clicking are the reasons I started to like tabbed browsing). This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/

I’m happy to say that a project I’m working on, WSMQ, has announced a Beta program for the hosted version of our product. What is WSMQ you might ask? WSMQ stands for Web Service Message Queue. It’s a queue that you can access from the network using XML and web services. Thus it is cross-platform in its use (Java programs can...