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I’ve greatly streamlined the process of finding images licensed in the Creative Commons for my presentations. I’d like to share the tools I use to the community. Enjoy! Please remember that anything you find in the Commons either should or must be attributed...
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I work for EMC. Specifically I work as part of EMC Consulting. More specifically I work as part of EMC Consulting in the Application Development and Design portion. In some research for some specific EMC material I ran across the below on YouTube. Yes,...
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As it turns out my clipped messages in Gmail that I have complained about in a prior post may actually be related to a defect that was in Outlook 2007 Beta releases. You can find some information at the Microsoft Outlook Product Team blog . This also...
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My very talented and experienced colleague Ira was sharing his stories about the good old days (tm), and inspired me to reflect on how very far we’ve come as an industry over a very sort time. Back in the day, this is how things worked. You just had to...
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Anybody who’s worked with agile teams for a while has likely come across the prime directive in one form or another. The copy I use in retrospectives is below [1]: Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best...
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My personal biography [1] bothers me. Each time I needed to update it, I found myself disliking it more and more, putting off the edits. I dreaded it the same way I dreaded updating my resume. Maybe it’s because they were the same document, presented...
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One of the ongoing struggles with Silverlight development involves the crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml security files. They are there for a very good reason, and shouldn’t be circumvented in violation of the website owners’ licenses. Now, however,...
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Note to self but useful to anyone that uses virtual machines and clones them or copies them into new environments. I’m not sure the exact order of things but I have often run into an issue where I get something wonky happening and when I go to check the...
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It seems I was able to get my Hyper-V Host machine finally cleaned up of the remnants of a failed SCVMM install (see previous posts here and here ). It took dozens and likely well over a hundred registry changes. Most of those changes being deleting references...
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From my previous post I detailed issues I had run into with SCVMM. They continue to compound. The Hyper-V Server host is where I originally tried to install SCVMM with it getting hung between installed and not installed. That has come back to bite me...
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I say all the below despite the fact that SCVMM is provided for trial as a virtual machine. My experience could have been machine or some other environment specific but nonetheless I give you the below… In my experience the short and simple word when...
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I have a few posts to make tonight and all the others will be more interesting and related to Visual Studio/TFS 2010 most likely but for now a rant on Gmail. I like Gmail but lately I have suddenly started getting a large number of “clipped messages”....
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I am a member of a community of thinkers. I believe that communities exist as homes for professionals to learn, teach, and reflect on their work. I challenge each community in the software industry to: reflect and honor the practitioners who make its...
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From http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/2009/11/15/lean-software-systems-conference-2010-atlanta/ Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st...
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For once this isn’t referring to my code but MGM Digital Media on YouTube and most specifically to one of my favorite movies by the same name. Imagine my surprise when I went to the YouTube Screen Room to see what new independent style films were on and...
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I am about to start a new coding project using Azure with one little twist being that I plan to have it utilize Atmos as well. We’ll see how it goes. I won’t be coding for the scale at which Atmos is designed but this is more of a POC and a good way to...
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I found I was having terrible performance on my V-Lan that was part of a Hyper-V network. Working with a new install of VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 on a freshly minted Hyper-V host I was getting timeouts like made. Not in the virtual machines but also in the...
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I recently upgraded one of my PCs CPU and RAM to better support virtualization in general and to support the Microsoft Test Lab Manager environment for Visual Studio 2010. In that process I learned a few things. I learned how cool it is to boot from a...
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This is an edited version of a post I wrote to kanbandev on 10/22/2009. The thread was started by somebody asking about work decomposition and how it relates to estimation, and asking why we have been saying that estimation doesn’t have value. Disclaimer:...
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This is a follow-on from the same conversation with Liz as the last post. We were talking about how Inkubook used branch by feature to keep our main line clean and to avoid additional complexities around the “Share code” bullet from her post : Share code....
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This post is a response to Liz’s post on Mocks, outside-in, swarming features and guesswork , specifically the bit about swarming. I was telling her how swarming tended to work on the Inkubook.com team when I was there and she asked me to make my comments...
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I’m doing a bit of research around Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection today for work, and I’ve been continually struck by how long these concepts have been around relative to the length of my career. Martin Fowler’s early article on the topics...
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This is a copy of a post I wrote to leanagile on 6 Oct, 2009. I have copied it here because I feel that it explains my perspective well. One of the things that has caused me to embrace both Agile and Lean is that they are not closed systems. Each of them...
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Yesterday Karl Scotland and I were able to witness an amazing event with one of the teams here in the UK. A kanban team measurably demonstrated 5x the results of a Scrum team with comparable software experience and capabilities working towards the same...
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For a while now Dell has been trying to break into the consulting game. EMC, who was at one time also known only as a hardware company and for whom I am a consultant, did so a number of years back. Dell has not, in my opinion, been very successful to...
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At long last I am coming in from the dark. Last April I joined EMC Consulting in the role of Solutions Principal (SP). Since that time I have largely gone “dark” in terms of blog or non-work related technical activities. One reason is that the role keeps...
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Oh wait, I don’t, and neither does Matt Heusser . In his most recent post over at Testing at the Edge of Chaos, he devotes a section to challenging why we co-locate at all any more. As somebody who has recently shaped my life to get out of that geographical...
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My friend Matt Heusser recently posted a perspective on kanban that I feel warrants a bit of discussion. I greatly respect Matt and his opinions on testing, software, and life in general. I feel that this post provides me a great opportunity to address...
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Context A recent discussion on the kanbandev list interested me because it really brought a focus on what we mean when we say “kanban”. First, David Anderson posted: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, netherby_uk wrote: (#1) kanban (small k) - meaning signal...
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Feature, and feature, and feature, Slide in their petty pace from queue to queue, To the last release of recorded value; And all our builds have lighted fools The way to techie debt. Out, out, beta users! Code's but an indented shadow, a poor representation...
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Introduction I know it has been a while since I wrote anything and I can come up with a number of good excuses as to why: New job at globo.com. Learning A LOT and working hard to improve our current development ecosystem. Pyccuracy and Skink maturing....
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I attended Ken’s ScrumMaster (tm) course over the last two days. Possibly more on that later, but for not I want to focus on something entirely different. People are just very incredibly decent when it comes right down to it. Ken has an absolution jar...
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The problem You have what Chris Matts calls an “Order Taker” as your business analyst. This individual is occasionally your only access to the people that actually understand what’s needed, yet they’ve been positioned as the gatekeepers of knowledge....
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In the process of debugging an issue with a sample web application, I was forced to learn a bit more about IIS7's management model, and I found some very valuable information. The problem: the user my request was running as did not have ACL-level access...
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Dear reader, if you don't understand this post that's alright. This post is in portuguese and aimed at Brazilians. Please disregard if you don't fit in those categories. Caros leitores Brasileiros, Você quer trabalhar com o melhor que a tecnologia pode...
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Grape release of Pynq is out! You can grab it in the usual places ( Installing Pynq ) . I’ll go over all the details of this new release, but first I’d like to introduce the HOTTEST feature of this new release: DOCUMENTATION ! Pynq now has comprehensive...
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The time has come to take another big step towards my dreams and move into the next phase of my career. Understanding how this move is a natural extension of my current position requires an understanding of where I have been in the past and an appreciation...
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Introduction Wow, that’s a big title. In approximately 2 months of python coding I already collected 5 projects to manage and nurture. Pyccuracy – The first one, a port of Stormwind Accuracy for .Net – a BDD Acceptance Testing framework. PyoC – A port...
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I have run into this twice now. Both on the same project but different branches. The second time was about 6 weeks after the first and I could not remember where or when I had seen it first I just knew that I had. The steps go like this: The solution...
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Version 1.4 has been released. Build 1.4.90426.1. It really has few user level changes from the 1.4 Final Beta. Some of the reports on the final beta have been pushed into the next release or as of yet unrepeatable from our end. Ladislau Szomoru and Peter...
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I just discovered a function in Linq that will save me a bit of typing and allow me to better express myself. For a long while, I've written this: ColorWrapper x = combo.Items.Where( obj => obj is ColorWrapper ).Cast< ColorWrapper >().FirstOrDefault(cw...
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Excerpted from the first draft of my experience report for leankanbanconference.com: Somebody has an idea to add value. Somebody approves the idea has merit, requests that it be built. Somebody transforms the idea into a set of specific changes that need...
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The TFS Admin Tool on Codeplex has a new build (1.4.10402.1). This is being labeled the 1.4 Final Beta. You can grab it and also see all the changes from here . Special thanks to Ladislau Szomoru and Peter Blomqvist who did most the work for this build....
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What's more natural than speaking? This is why Pyccuracy will now support audio BDD Acceptance Testing. From version 0.5.0 onwards, you'll be able to just shout your tests at the test engine. Just Shout it Whenever you need a test done, use your voice...
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I have had two different yet potentially related issues in Silverlight within the last week. Well, more than two but just two I am going to talk about in this post. Note my last post title Silverlight With A Set Of Canvases Inside A Stack Panel . To me...
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Just a reminder of something that has bitten us more than once. If you need to copy an XML value from one data object to another, use this syntax: if ( copiedPlacement != null ) { currentPlacement.FormatXML = new XElement (copiedPlacement.FormatXML);...
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A new program and pricing structure has been created for the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami. There is now a Lean Day and a Kanban Day, each with a single track. The idea behind the new program is that it allows everyone to be able to see all the...
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What would you expect to be rendered from the following? Answer in the next post. Personally I’d expect a vertical stack of canvas each with a button and combobox beside one another. Short answer. Nope! 1: Notice the nested canvas and the controls list...
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How many open source tools you use? Cool, now of how many of those you actually know who’s behind them. By knowing I mean a face, a name and some bio on the person. I expect the answer to be just a few or none, right? Pyccuracy sets the example Well you...
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After a lot of hardwork by the team , the new release is out! Go ahead, try it, find what you don’t like and tell us. Release Notes for 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 (it’s worth mentioning that the docs for all of them are in www.pyccuracy.org as well): Release Notes...
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