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"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease"

The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit this week in Redmond.

0 replies - 679 views - 10/16/09 by Ted Neward in News

Nobody Has a Duty to Teach

At the last conference I attended, Scott Hanselman hosted a session called – Why So Mean? (entire Kyte video here).

1 replies - 755 views - 07/27/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Idealistic vs. Practical

I often identify myself as an Agilist. When I first began to use the term, I was met with a great deal of trepidation. I remember the first few times I...

0 replies - 715 views - 03/27/09 by bennage in News

Always Assume That You're the Problem

If you are as much of a fan of the book “The Pragmatic Programmer” as I am, then you might remember the phase: “Select” Isn’t Broken

9 replies - 4208 views - 03/27/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Who the Frag Has Time For Open Source?

The other day I was reading Jeff Atwood's blog post discussing why OO.o couldn't attract people to their open source initiative. He made some great points...

6 replies - 1337 views - 02/01/09 by sarajo in News

Don’t Flaunt Your Best Code, Show Us Your Broken Crap

What is the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Some would venture to say experience, and I would agree to a point. I believe it is our failed...

0 replies - 813 views - 01/26/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

Code Refactoring - Freaking Awesome

We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...

12 replies - 11989 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News

Is Microsoft the New IBM?

Remember in, like, 1993 when it was awesome to work for IBM? I remember hearing about their awesome rockstar offices and how many amenities that they had. This...

3 replies - 1385 views - 01/15/09 by sarajo in News

2008: A Developer's Retrospective

 I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...

3 replies - 6397 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Discussion: Why Web Designers Often Use PHP Over ASP.NET?

Some time ago my colleague asked me "I like to read blogs about webdesign, but why are they mostly PHP-oriented?". Huh, really, why? Ihaven't thought...

4 replies - 2938 views - 12/11/08 by dzovan in News

Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NETDeveloper's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future ofVisual Basic in...

0 replies - 1310 views - 11/25/08 by Ted Neward in News

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It’s Important

For the last month, I was working on an imagery infrastructure library. Some of my effort was to well document each class, method and property so that the...

0 replies - 1098 views - 11/19/08 by shaharDev102 in News

10 Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part A

There are several things a software developer can do to make his life much more difficult in the future. One day, some pieces of an old code may make us sorry...

0 replies - 1893 views - 11/14/08 by shaharDev102 in News

Three Great Reasons Why Even Lonely Developers Need Source Control

Sometimes, when you're a lone developer on a project you skip some of the important facets of developing as a group. Like iteration planning, bug tracking, and...

1 replies - 5507 views - 11/07/08 by sarajo in News

Terrible Code Example - Methods From Hell

I have been wanting to write this series of articles for a long time. Over the years I have come across very bad code examples and I have always wanted to...

0 replies - 1063 views - 10/30/08 by AmitDev102 in News