Jonathan Cogley's Blog

VB.NET 10 gets some LOVE

thycotic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:19:39 GMT

Kevin Jones (our VB.NET poster child on the Thycotic team – ok, maybe there is more than one!) has blogged about his favorite features in VB.NET 10.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Agile Process Software or Index Cards/Stickies?

thycotic — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:29:06 GMT

There is some discussion going on here about whether software tools work well for managing Agile processes or whether going manually with index cards and sticky notes works best. Is your team practicing Agile? If so, what works best for you?

DevConnections – Day 4

thycotic — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:47:54 GMT

Jimmy has posted with sage advice on White Lists versus Black Lists and more from Day 4 at DevConnections 2009 in Las Vegas.

DevConnections – Day 3

thycotic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:56:04 GMT

Jimmy does it again with Single Responsibility Principle and other .NET Best Practices. Don’t miss the next in his Top 10 Takeaway series from #devconnections.

DevConnections – Day 2

thycotic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:06:11 GMT

Jimmy has posted again with the Top 10 Takeaways from Day 2. Keep it up Jimmy!

DevConnections – Day 1

thycotic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:28:58 GMT

Jimmy is at DevConnections this week and is promising to have a new blog post every day. We will see how that works out! :)

Here is his first installment – Top 10 Takeaways for SharePoint.

Recursive Table Expressions

thycotic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:24:14 GMT

Kevin has posted about Recursive Table Expressions on the team blog. This is something that the team is using on some new product development when working with the Active Directory nested structure.

Removing time from SQL datetime

thycotic — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:03:39 GMT

How many times do you have a data point in your application that is a date but not a datetime? For example: birthdate, receiptdate, licensedate, etc. Things can get really weird when doing date math if these “dates” have times on them – for example: 2.33333 years instead of 2.32. We have even seen some strange things happen with timezones - 8/2/1955 00:00 becomes 8/2/1955 01:00 (still puzzled by this one although I have seen it a few times).

Kevin explores some solutions to this problem in our latest team blog post.

The one option I have seen several clients use on projects is to store the date as a varchar(8) in YYYYMMDD format. While the ISO formatting does allow sorting, it just feels icky.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship web-based password management product.

The Strategy Pattern explained with an example

thycotic — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:53:24 GMT

David has a Strategy Pattern post on the Thycotic team blog in the expanding series of Design Pattern posts. This one focuses on the Strategy Pattern and the flexibility it can bring to cover future implementations.

The Template Pattern – A Benevolent Dictator

thycotic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:08:42 GMT

Ben has a great new post on the team blog in our ad-hoc “design pattern” series.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship web password management product.

Pair Programming and Pandemics

thycotic — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:29:37 GMT

Pouya has posted about the dangers of illnesses when Pair Programming on our team blog.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship web password management product.

The Facade Pattern - Don’t Talk to Strangers

thycotic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:31:59 GMT

Ben has posted about the Facade Pattern on the team blog.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship web password management product.

Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox?

thycotic — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:17:24 GMT

David has posted about how Truth Tables can be used to make it easier to consider all variations of input and output for your programming logic.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Stinky PartialMocks?

thycotic — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:56:17 GMT

Jimmy has posted about PartialMocks on the team blog. This has been a recurring discussion on our team and it is worthwhile thinking careful about whether to use PartialMocks and if so, what is an appropriate usage …

Registration Forms – are you asking for too much information?

thycotic — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:11:05 GMT

Read my latest post about Registration Forms on our team blog here.