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Pair Programming in Rockville MD on Weds 2/1/2006
"Imagine working the code while constantly rethinking the grand scheme of the design in your head. Imagine catching your typos first time, every time. Imagine finding bugs twice as fast and having a good conversation about how to approach finding them. Imagine learning new techniques, ideas and strategies while working on your code everyday. If you already achieve all of these things on your own then skip the usergroup and go straight to a psychologist! If not, then come along to learn why Pair Programming is fun, productive and a tremendous improvement to the otherwise black art of lone gun programming."
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Simple pluggable forum software
We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision.
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Programmers don't buy support
After thinking more on my previous post, the basic flaw in our plan was expecting a programmer to buy support.
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Open Source doesn't work (for your typical ISV)
Can you feel the flamethrowers warming up? :-) Larry O'Brien pointed me to this great SDTimes article "The Changing Face of Open Source". In the article, Andrew Binstock discusses the challenges in coming up to speed with a complex codebase and contributing real value as a 'volunteer'. He discusses how large projects tend to be primarily driven by commercial developers and concludes that the economics ultimately comes back to the same model as traditional closed source software.
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Secret Server now supports ASP.NET 2.0!
Our product, Secret Server, now supports ASP.NET 2.0. Testing on ASP.NET 2.0 started with a horrible crash on the secret view page resulting in the typical "but it worked fine in 1.1?!".