Our previous Columbus TFS Event had such a wonderful turnout and response that we’ve decided to go on the road to Kentucky in a few weeks. I’m happy to have Dave Dotterer of Kizan as my partner in crime. Dave is a great TFS resource and it’ll be awesome to have his insight for the [...]
Where did Alt.Net go?
Aug 11
These last few weeks have seen a flurry of emotions from the .Net community. It appears that a few product releases and a presumptive priority change for IronRuby have caused the world to come crashing down and passengers of the .Net ship to jump overboard. I’m glad I don’t work for these emotionally unstable individuals, [...]
Engaged, passionate team members are the base of any great Scrum team or any Agile team for that matter. Without passion and without engagement, quality is a burden and continual team introspection demands dragging lumber up hill. There is a downside to passion at times and it’s the dream of every Product Owner. We’ve all [...]
I’ve never found a use for the XmlDataProvider natively in Xaml for a shipping app, but today a @malevy had a situation that sounded interesting. He has an Xml document structured as follows: <Owners> <Owner name=”’”> <Pet name=”” /> <Pet name=”” /> <Owner name=””> … </Owners> He wanted to be [...]
One of my biggest irritants with the Unit Testing ecosystem is that each runner does things a little different. Gallio has helped solve this to some extent, but even that hasn’t solved all the problems that come with content or resource file deployments, coverage settings, etc. Gallio’s goal is noble if not arrogant, become the [...]
[Updated: An offline, PDF agenda is available here] Around a month from now Alexei Govorine of Quick Solutions and I will be leading a free, two day event diving into Team Foundation Server 2010 and its uses within a Scrum development organization. This is my first year being a part of this event, but Alexei [...]
I had a great time in Frankfort, KY yesterday. We had a great turnout for the Expression SketchFlow: From Concept to Production session. It is incredibly encouraging to see so many interested in building great, well designed apps for all industries and clients (even your LOB apps!). Thanks again for those who made it. You [...]
Along with a great cast of MS partners, evangelists, specialists and more I will be bringing Sketchflow to the Frankfort, KY area Thursday, April 15th. This will be Session I with Session II scheduled for April 22nd. You can learn about everything from Forefront Suite to Silverlight to Windows Phone 7 and, of-course, Sketchflow. You [...]
Lots of people struggle with grouping data and when they do, the brut force method normally takes over and we start creating some crazy super structure to organize data and then do something like put a List inside of a List or a Grid inside of a list. Just think of how many times you [...]
With all the hubbub around Git, TFS 2010, and others over the last year or so, the Dayton .Net Developers Group is hosting a panel event this Wednesday, December 9th, titled Source Control Smackdown 2009. I have been lucky enough to be selected to represent TFS in a clash against SVN (Justin Kohnen) and Git [...]