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Refactoring: Getting started is the hard part

Just the thought of ‘refactoring’ can be daunting to a programmer. Martin Fowler defines ‘refactoring’ as: Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a...

Posted to David.Yancey (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-25-2008
Agile and the .NET Community

Why does it seem that the .NET Community isn’t very active in the Agile community? I know that there are Agile practitioners in various .NET shops however, it seems that the overall representation is very minimal. Is it because of a lack of understanding of the Agile methodologies? Or is there...

Posted to David.Yancey (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
AgileDotNet Conference 2008

I usually start out these posts saying "I don't typically link-blog", but I've said that so many times now, that I think I'll just say "I've found another occasion to link-blog something", this time from my good friend Todd Girvin at Improving Enterprises . I'm...

Posted to ChrisKoenig (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008
September 2008: "Introduction to Scrum" Meeting

Stephen Swienton's September 2008 "Introduction to Scrum" presentation. email stephen at swienton.com with questions.

Posted to Presentations (FileGallery) by sswienton on 09-16-2008
September 2008 Meeting

Our September meeting will be held on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 6pm at Justin Brands. Our very own FWDNUG President, Stephen Swienton, will be presenting: Introduction to Scrum We have some GREAT PRIZES to give out this month: "Heroes Hapen {here} Launch Kit: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise...

Posted to Meetings (Weblog) by sswienton on 09-11-2008
August 2008 Meeting

Our August meeting will be held on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 6pm at Justin Brands. Jef Newsom will be presenting: Behavior-Driven Development August Meeting Sponsor TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range...

Posted to Meetings (Weblog) by sswienton on 08-13-2008
ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

This is partially in response to this somewhat infamous article by Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html In this Jeff mentions that although PHP as a language and platform sucks, it doesn’t matter. Its low barrier to entry has allowed PHP to become the defacto standard for...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-03-2008
Certified ScrumMaster

As many of my close friends and family already know, I have been wanting to transition out of the full-time software developer position. Although I still love working with all of the new Microsoft Developer Technologies, the reality is that it is really hard to keep up with everything - especially when...

Posted to Texas Yankee (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-15-2008
Lessons Learned From the WAM Charity Event

I just got back from the WAM charity event that i mentioned in an earlier post. I want to again thank everyone on my team for all their hard work. It was also amazing to see what the other teams had built in such a short timeframe, sometimes with only one or two developers. I learned a lot about development...

Posted to Dot Net Tricks (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-21-2008

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