Saturday, August 13, 2005

Test Driven Development; Microsoft vs. OpenSource

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So why pay Microsoft when you can get the tools for free? Currently, I am team lead for a very talented group of people. One of the things t...
Saturday, July 30, 2005

singleton pattern

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So how cool is that. I was running through one of the new MSDN enterprise application blocks in the debugger (IMHO, the best way to get to ...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

./sqlexpress

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I love diving into new technology. So much to learn, so many cools things. A whole lot of reading going on. So I’ve installed Microsoft Visu...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Open Courseware

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Evidence toward a trend. Over the last three years I have developed the though that curriculum should be developed once and used by everyone...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Agile Database Techniques

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One in every 10 technical books I read is different from the rest.  And recently I’ve read some good ones, in general they all lived up to m...
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Software Architecture needs Process

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Today we were discussing staff build up for a company I am involved with.  Hiring staff is an interesting and very complex process when you ...
Thursday, May 12, 2005

Write a business case

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 I’ve been a software developer for over eighteen years.  I’ve seen a lot of success during that time, I’ve also seen failure.  As many of y...
Friday, May 06, 2005

Bidirectional Traceability

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I was busy studying for one of my Masters courses and I’m having to describe a teaching scenario that I have utilized in the last few years ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Look at AJAX and Greasemonkey

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So I’ve been teaching a course on ASP.NET.  And it’s a funny thing that after all my time spent learning about code behind forms, server sid...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Technology won’t be proprietary

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The rate of technology change is staggering. It’s faster now than it’s ever been. The internet is becoming a utility like our electricity, w...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

VB, Refactoring & .NET

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So as I settle into my new job I am looking into many things. Mostly focused on continuous improvement, the SDLC process, having set iterati...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Software economics and code quality

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So, I heard back from the NRC after I asked about software quality, start-up success and CMMI. They got back to me very quickly with a good ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2005

NRC and Software Economics

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I think I may have stumbled across a source of information for my software quality and start-up success relationship query. If you have been...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

Execute, execute, execute

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So I’m still searching for evidence on the positive relationship between software quality and technology start-up success. And I found some ...
Sunday, January 16, 2005

OpenSource vs Microsoft conundrum

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Well it’s happened, after 8 years as a Microsoft disciple and most of these as a Microsoft certified professional I’m seriously considering...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

It’s time to get back to work

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It’s been a great sabbatical, but it must come to an end. Three months of learning, research, home renovations and gearing up for a new st...
Sunday, January 09, 2005

Digital natives; a note for parents

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If you have children born since 1984 you may want to consider this whitepaper written by Marc Prensky to gain insight into the forces whic...
Monday, January 03, 2005

Gratitude Measure

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So after my new years resolution musings I set out to see if I could find a measure for gratitude. The short answer; nothing was easily ...
Saturday, January 01, 2005

Can you measure gratitude?

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Last night during our new years celebrations the resolution question came up. Most people wanted to do something like run four times a wee...
Friday, December 17, 2004

e-learning in British Columbia, the grass is very green

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Whenever I have a chance, I do some reading and research for the learning technology roadmap I am building for my local school district. ...