If you followed the Summer of NHibernate screencast series then you know that I use CodeRush and RefactorPro from DevExpress as Visual Studio add-ins to help supercharge my development experience (yes, I know that Resharper gets all the publicity, but I happen to prefer the CodeRush + RefactorPro approach to solving my extensibility needs, so [...]
Effective immediately the next installment of the Autumn Of Agile screencast series is now available for download directly from the site.
In this installment we start to dig into the requirements for our project, flesh out the context for our solution and try to frame our approach in terms of the business problems it will solve [...]
Several suggestions were offered to me by readers when I was trying to decide how best to structure the Autumn of Agile screencast series. One of the challenges of this screencast series is that unlike the previous Summer of NHibernate series that focuses on just a single technology for its entire length, the Autumn of [...]
Last night we held the second NYC ALT.NET user group meeting with a focus on discussing issues around the role and challenges of Project Management in an Agile work environment.
ThoughtWorks was kind enough to sponsor the food (pizza and soda) for the event (thanks, guys) in exchange for a brief mention and a thank-you during [...]
When I launched the Summer of NHibernate site back in July to host the screencasts for download, utility was the primary motivator for the design (if you can call it that) of the site. As you can see from the screenshot at left, its really nothing to write home about…unless you wanted to write home [...]
After a brief hiatus to catch my breath following the conclusion of the Summer of NHibernate screencast series, I am pleased to announce that the initial installment of my next screencast series is now available for immediate download from a brand new (but just as butt-ugly ) dedicated site: www.AutumnOfAgile.net.
Iteration -1 ????
This first installment is [...]
Its somewhat funny to me how the usual ‘knock’ against Open Source Software is the poor quality of the documentation that often accompanies it. “Why can’t we have professional quality, comprehensive documentation for these OSS projects just like the really solid, professional quality documentation that comes from — oh, I don’t know — Microsoft for [...]
A number of readers of this blog have let me know that they have adopted the UnitTestBase and DatabaseUnitTestBase classes that I originally demonstrated from the Summer of NHibernate screencast series as a simple means of facilitating their writing of unit tests. This is great news as I’m glad others have been finding value in [...]
For those following along, I have just posted the 15th (yes, I know it says ‘Session 14′, there was a ‘2a’, remember? ) and final installment in the Summer of NHibernate screencast series for download.
As promised, in this installment we port our data-access-layer code and related unit tests to the recently-minted NHibernate 2.0 release (well, [...]
The next ALT.NET NYC user group meeting is Wednesday October 22, 2008 and the discussion topic will be Agile Project Management. Our group is off to a great start with a tremendous turn-out for the first meeting in late-September at Microsoft’s offices in Midtown Manhattan where we had a solid 30-40 attendees.
I want to give [...]
