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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

Today, I played designer
It was rather nice. For a few minutes earlier today, I was able to experience the designer's perspective of Blend. We had a bug filed on one of our common controls' visual appearance, and a designer and a developer were pairing on cleaning it up. They Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:33 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Back from Agile2008!
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:11 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

30 days later
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 Read More...

Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 9:39 AM by willeke | 1 Comments

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And a subtle shift scrumward
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. Read More...

Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 1:37 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Thoughts on Batch Size
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:29 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

The first time
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. Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15 PM by willeke | 0 Comments


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Sanity check: is your process doing what it needs to?
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:32 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

Thanks SEP!
SEP , my previous employer, has graciously released their Code Review Support Tool to the community under the New BSD license. It's currently up at CodePlex and is a fully functioning (version 3-5!) release. Matt and I are currently gathering ideas about Read More...

Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 8:41 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Must-Read post
I've been bickering with one of my peers about testability vs. simplicity and extensibility vs. sufficiency, and this article came back to mind. Anybody who hasn't read it, should. Anybody who has read it should read it again. Where were you before? Where Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:50 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

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Are mock objects hard?
I never thought so, but then I realized I had five years to understand the justifications behind them. To me, they've become one of the common, core aspects of unit testing, and they always would have stayed that way until I started considering how to Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:29 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

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