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Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked
First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:45 PM by willeke | 1 Comments

More thoughts on overtime
Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:22 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Mr. Sowell goes to software.
There is no need to attempt to determine the net effect of cities on costs in general. First of all, there is no such thing as costs in general. There are particular costs that matter differently to particular individuals and enterprises, and those individuals Read More...

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 11:56 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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TFS Sql script - list policy overrides
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 Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Software development IS product development
Great analysis by Corey at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LeanSoftwareEngineering/~3/142106190/ This part especially hits home with how I feel about things I've seen (emphasis mine): "Software methodology’s understanding of the meaning of quality, reliability, Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:20 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Too soon! Too soon!
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx This is pure torture... TFS 2008's still only in beta 2, and he's already tormenting me with the things that the NEXT version will have, but I Read More...

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 9:37 AM by willeke | 0 Comments