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I like this article by Nathan Henkel , its essentially about assessing risk and scope of projects and strikes me as a simple truth about the uncertainties you encounter in every project: Information about any project can be divided into four categories...
After several months of using the Free version of the ClearContext addon for Microsoft Outlook, I just cant imagine what I would do without it. It has reduced my email time, kept me more organized, and uncluttered my Inbox better & faster than any...
No matter how faithfully you try to follow your chosen project methodology (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Waterfall, CMMI, etc.) ultimately the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures you experience are determined by the habits, attitude, and style...
House of Babel Sometimes I get involved with a .NET project where I find code that is just so "different" from the norm that I wonder how it got to such an extreme state; Code that reinvents Configuration, Threading, File IO, DataAccess, or sometimes...
...are a few words that could describe my past year (or so) of blogging activity. I have so many thoughts zipping around in my mind that I just cant find time or motivation to go code, post, and purge them - I feel completely mentally constipated. Somehow...
I recently wanted to retry the idea of using virtual development environments instead of developing locally on my PC so that I can have several pre-built development and test environments that are tailored to each deployment target. Having dabbled at...
I dont have time for a lengthy post, so here is some link-love for some great articles that have helped me lately with some data extensions and other custom code I am writing for Sql Server 2005 Reporting Services: Using SQL Reporting Services 2005 and...
Face it, the IT world is a tiny tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone either directly or indirectly through our own private game of 6-degrees of separation . So, why do most employers treat potential recruits more like pesky cold-calling...
I installed Red-Gate ’s Sql Refactor addin when the beta first came out and instantly loved it! The features were perfect; the automatic code-formatting, smart renaming, configurable sql coding style preferences, not to mention all of the DDL refactoring...
Just some miscellaneous thoughts on those I have left behind... I never blogged much about my last employer, Mary Kay , - at least directly - but I spent (almost exactly) 5 years there, and had plenty of ups and downs. I credit that experience for helping...
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