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Wow, so much I probably should talk about, but I don't even know where to start. Massive amounts of networking, information, realization, and even contribution going on, and I can't unravel it at all right now. I think there's a lot of potential for transforming
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Wow - it's been over thirty days since my last post. What's changed since then? First, we've put http://inkubook.com into production. I'm very proud of the work I've done and that my team has done on this one. We killed ourselves getting it done, but
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Our team has decided to take a step back towards scrum and away from our previous semi-Kanban approach. I think that it's a good plan at this time, although I also suspect that many of the benefits of our earlier approach will continue to show through.
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In the beginning, there is no resume, only an application. Then, there is the resume. Later, the resume becomes an afterthought, used to round out the paperwork. Until, eventually, there is no resume, only trust.
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The concepts surrounding batch size have been floating around my head again in recent days. My current assignment is a rather large batch of work with Silverlight 2.0, but it's one that I've been able to subdivide into a number of small batches that rapidly
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Effective _now_, we are hiring a single experienced individual into an architect or senior developer role. If you have a desire to work with an incredible team, have great .NET coding skills, and have a desire to see your work become a real product in
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or silverlight, or visual studio, or something. Anyway, my work is in the Silverlight.net installation forum under a post titled "Silverlight startup error with resources - Summary of fix" The corrected file is attached here, and I hate wasting a full
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.Common.targets
Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers.
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Attachment(s): Rich Branch Management.ppt
Namespace handling is much improved! Yay for easy namespaces! Anybody who has worked with XML in .NET 1.x or 2.0 knows how much of a pain XML namespaces can be in extracting data, yet they fill a very important part of the XML technology. Now, for linq.
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I rarely repost, but this single, fairly short article seems to hit many of the high points in a very condensed format. If I were in a southern church hearing this read i would expect a constant stream of "Amen" echoing around me. Read it. Think about
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What's the difference between these two lines? scriptInit.InnerHtml = string.Format(creationFormat, outerDiv.ClientID, someOtherString); scriptInit.InnerText = string.Format(creationFormat, outerDiv.ClientID, someOtherString); Answer: The first one doesn't
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I'm almost beyond words in a geeky technical sort of way. The ease and simplicity of accomplishing my desires is releasing a sense of joy that I have not felt professionally for quite some time. My desire is made manifest, and I don't have to fight the
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One of the things I like to do for my personal learning is revisiting some of the articles and papers that had an impact on me to see if they come across differently after months or years. I forget how I got there today I've had Eric Sink's Career Calculus
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Subject: "Today's scrums will be held in front of the kanban board." Yes, it was followed with: " That’s the one with all of the post-its. " But, this is a huge step towards better flow, which has been an issue for months.
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A doctor, of course. And, by extension, what do you call somebody who passes a certification test with the minimum passing score? Certified! I'm glad to be done with it, even though I put off the second part over a year. I'm officially done with the 2005
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I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or
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Went to ArcReady today, which was supposed to be about software + services, but it turned into a nice discussion of Microformats . As a result, I did more investigation. Larry 's right... this is going to be hot (if he's wrong, so am I!) More when I dig
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and I'm getting EXCITED about the season. All the activities, family, fun, and giving is just getting ramped up last weekend. The house is decorated, the baby's Christmas dress is ordered, and everything is going well. It also helps quite a bit that we've
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Well, Bernardo got a new job, I got a new role. I've been officially promoted to Software Architect here at Authorhouse, effective immediately. This role change led me to think more about what the role of architect really means, and I've come to really
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Had my first ever sprint wrap-up meeting. I knew it wouldn't be too bad, but I've been wanting to get some sort of recycle on project phases for a couple different positions now, and was glad to see how one was run, especially since I'm in the middle
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It's much easier to tell somebody why they're wrong than it is to tell them how to do it right. Thus, build something quick and dirty (even as a thought exercise), and THEN figure out what's "right". Prototypes. Agile. RAD. Models. Alphas. Betas. Every
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Per their job search at http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/default.aspx , Microsoft has 418 job titles (from A-W, I like "Technologist"). Per my memory, the companies I've directly been employed by since college had ~25, ~60 and ~325 people .
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The business case for TFS is significant, and since we're still in the "money back" period for both our other tools, we're headed to TFS. As soon as I can get the domain accounts I'll be installing it... yay! So, that said, what do I need? TFS Power Tools
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I'm back to Vault (and DevTrack) at my new job... it's not so bad, even though I do love the many integration possibilities that Team Foundation offers between the different components. That said, since I've had a lot of experience with Vault in the past,
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It was very nice this morning to have a daily stand-up be the first thing of my first day at the office. It gave me a great feel for what the various team members were up to and how they were going about the project, and this was before I even really
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