Author: derek
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Lessons learned from a great team.
In the midst of transitioning to a new job, I felt it would be wise to take a minute to reflect on some of the lessons learned working with the talented team of developers at the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. When I joined this team in August of 2009, they had recently gone through […]
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Unit Testing Concepts, Tools and Best Practices
The following is a presentation I made to our team as we were planning out how to incorporate unit testing in to our development process. Unit Testing Concepts and Best Practices View more presentations from Derek Smith.
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A new job lies ahead.
It is always exciting to make a change, and even more so when that change brings forth new opportunities and challenges. In a little less than a week, I’ll be joining the software development team at RMSource, an IT Consulting firm in Cary, NC, as a Senior Developer. It has been my pleasure to work […]
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Gearing up
Call it jumping on the bandwagon. Call it being inspired from the likes of Scott Hanselman, Jeff Atwood and Phil Haacked. Whatever the reason, I’ve decided its time to start blogging about being a developer. To kick this off, I’ll be posting a few entries from offline writing and research I’ve completed.
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TFS Migration: Sharing common code
In this latest installment of recording our team’s migration to Team Foundation Server 2010, I’ll be describing how we organized and share our common code libraries. The scenario is quite common. We have a Application that provides specific line of business functionality. It leverages several Common libraries that provide underlying functionality that are used by […]