Friday, September 30, 2005

$100 Learning Appliance

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The way we  learn is changing . The current discoveries in regards to  how we learn , combined with the deceasing price of computers are on ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Howe Sound and Google Maps API

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I was wanting to learn more about the  AJAX  programming model so I figured why not hack google maps. The nice thing about it was that googl...

NUnit and ConnectionStrings

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Thanks to one of my co-workers I stumbled across how to get  NUnit  working with externally hosted App.config files in .NET 2.0 and VS 2005....
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Cognitive Flexibility Theory

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I love being in the flow… Over the weekend I was discussing  Cognitive Flexibility Theory  with a friend of mine. He is a builder of high-en...
Monday, September 26, 2005

MVC, a pattern or an architecture?

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Is the Model View Controller (MVC) a design pattern, a framework or an architecture? I was having a discussion the other day with all of the...
Saturday, September 24, 2005

Patterns in .NET

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If your into design patterns and your on any kind of a learning curve in implementing patterns in .NET and C# I’d suggest you read the descr...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Looking forward into education

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There are many changes afoot with all the new technologies and the people who use them. In particular, the  digital natives  and how they wi...
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...