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Chomping the dog food with a nice Chardonnay
Joel Spolsky has written an interesting piece about the idea of "eating your own dogfood" which simply means using your own software - people who buy dogfood don't eat it. Over the years, I have seldom been in the position to use the software that Thycotic Software Ltd has developed. The software has usually been out of my realm of usefulness - how many of us even know the slightest thing about chromatography, sewer planning or asbestos claims for that matter?
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DC Housing Market versus 70-320
This weekend we purchased a condo in the Washington DC area and I passed the Microsoft 70-320 exam ("Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework"). The natural question for any techie then would be: which was harder?
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Eric Sink talks through the Team System pricing question.
Eric Sink discusses his views on why Team System is priced at its current level and also may set you straight on what you do and don't get with MSDN Universal. MSDN Universal is a wonderful product and probably a great way to get pricey (more than $2000) server products into the hands of those who otherwise might not try them. Unfortunately you will still need a client who can afford the licensing to purchase those server products for your applications. This can often be a barrier to consulting shops who would otherwise like to gain real-world experience in technologies such as BizTalk, Microsoft Content Management Server and Microsoft Commerce Server.
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Maintenance Complexity leads to more methods?
Mark Miller talks about a new metric he is calling Maintenance Complexity. The system assigns operators and constructs a point score representing their contributing complexity. A method is then analyzed and all the points add up to yield the Maintenance Complexity score. I like the concept but tackling a report of complex methods would probably just result in breaking them apart into more methods. Many might argue that this is a Good Thing although it really depends on how the methods are split.
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Code Camp hits DC area in May!
Andrew Duthie (the Mid-Atlantic Microsoft .NET Developer Evangelist) mentions that Code Camp will be coming to the DC area in May. Stay posted for details of this full day FREE technology fest with lots of great technical content from the local community. This promises to be a local event that you don't want to miss.