March 2010 - Posts

Being a Team Lead is like playing Tetris
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:17 PM

Tucker has posted about his experiences as Team Lead on our product development team. 

Team Leads are hands-on coders on our teams but they are also responsible for working with the ScrumMaster/ProductOwner to co-ordinate on the status and priority of tasks which is where the juggling begins. :)

It takes good technical skills combined with people smarts and solid task management to move the entire team towards the end goal.

 

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 vault.

Developing in Notepad
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 5:42 PM

Kevin has posted about his experiences while developing a .NET app in Notepad while on vacation recently

Personally I have found such simple exercises to be very useful in learning the fundamentals of a new platform (compiling, runtimes, etc) but I don’t ever like to be far from my IDE and my productivity add-ins such as keyboard shortcuts, Resharper, etc.

 

 

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 vault.

Getting Things Done for Programmers
Friday, March 19, 2010 2:30 PM

Ben has posted about one of my favorite topics – Getting Things Done from a programmer’s perspective.

 

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.

Thinking in RegEx – when is a mind shift required?
Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:28 AM

David has written a great post on thinking in RegEx.  I have seen this many times with different languages or platforms where a shift in thinking is required to really use the language/platform effectively. 

Ones that spring to mind:

  • SQL (set based thinking)
  • NAnt (tag based thinking)
  • Bash (process/task based thinking)

Read David’s post and please comment on any other language/platform that made you shift your mind.

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