Yes, my MVP was renewed for another year.  :) Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

NCoverExplorer v1.3.3 released. Jamie Cansdale added a ridiculous number of new features. Great job, Jamie! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

NCoverExplorer v1.3.3 released. Jamie Cansdale added a ridiculous number of new features. Great job, Jamie! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

Join the chat on April 19th, 2006 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific time. The Team System Developer and Tester Tools (Unit Testing, Web Testing, Load Testing, Profiling, Code Analysis (FxCop and PREFast) and Code Coverage) is having a MSDN chat on Wednesday, April 19th, at 10:00am (PST, 1pm EST) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats. There...

If you're looking for a No Best Practice rant like James Bach, then you won't find it here. Instead, here I will propose the one true best practice I've found, one which I have not been able to change it from being a best practice no matter how much of the situation I change: Use version control Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! |...

There are only 21 seats available. If you're interested in attending, register now! Register at http://www.richmondcodecamp.org. Saturday, April 22, 2006  8:30 AMECPI Technical College 800 Moorefield Park Drive Richmond, VA 23236 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

In the April 2006 issue of CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering (USA), there is an interesting article called Army Simulation Program Balances Agile and Traditional Methods With Success. The authors note that traditional methods are driven by the need for predictability and control, whereas the agile methods focus on...

In the April 2006 issue of CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering (USA), there is an interesting article called Army Simulation Program Balances Agile and Traditional Methods With Success. The authors note that traditional methods are driven by the need for predictability and control, whereas the agile methods focus on...

I'm trying to implement the whole Getting Things Done approach by David Allen. One of the big recommendations is to sort your work into "contexts." For example, sort your next actions into contexts like "on the phone", "at the computer", "running errands", etc. That way when you're able to use your phone for 10 minutes, you have a ready-made...

I'm trying to implement the whole Getting Things Done approach by David Allen. One of the big recommendations is to sort your work into "contexts." For example, sort your next actions into contexts like "on the phone", "at the computer", "running errands", etc. That way when you're able to use your phone for 10 minutes, you have a ready-made...

David Maister, the guru of Consulting, talks about his extensive experience in training:"I now believe that the overwhelming majority of all business training, by me and by everyone else, is a complete waste of money and time."Why would someone who has earned boatloads of money doing it think training, of all things, is a waste?"The main reason...

David Maister, the guru of Consulting, talks about his extensive experience in training:"I now believe that the overwhelming majority of all business training, by me and by everyone else, is a complete waste of money and time."Why would someone who has earned boatloads of money doing it think training, of all things, is a waste?"The main reason...

ServiceOrientation.orgFounded by SOA luminary Thomas Erl, the same Thomas Erl that wrote Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design. From what I've read so far, it's a great site.

ServiceOrientation.orgFounded by SOA luminary Thomas Erl, the same Thomas Erl that wrote Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design. From what I've read so far, it's a great site.

Howard van Rooijen has an excellent article on setting up Simian to detect duplicate code. Then he takes the next step and creates MonkeyWrangler, an add-in that takes the Simian output and converts it so that you can double-click on the text and Visual Studio will take you to the file and line of code! Found 9 duplicate lines in the following...