Year: 2010

Career

Career Retrospective 2010

One of the tenants of the Agile methodology for software development is the Retrospective.  Essentially, the Retrospective is a time when a team can look back on the last body of effort, and ask themselves the some variant of the following three questions: What did we do well? What did we do not so well? […]

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Featured

Launched! HomeSpot AgentPro goes live.

Countless late nights are behind me as I joyfully announce the launch of our newest HomeSpot product, AgentPro. http://www.HomeSpotAgentPro.com AgentPro allows professionals in the real estate and home improvement industries to leverage our consumer product HomeSpot HQ as an economical and value-adding marketing platform. Do you know a real estate agent who’s looking for a […]

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Craftsmanship
Videos

A video every serious developer should watch.

Robert C. Martin’s keynote from QCon London 2010 titled “Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering and Certification”

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Design
Patterns and practices

Datasets are not Business Objects.

It’s a long argued debate, but I weigh in the misguided practice of using DataSets instead of custom Business Objects.

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Tools

In Praise of Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups is a great example of a single focus software company being successfully by doing one thing extremely well.

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