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Agile Stickies Board
While we are not yet in the era of "Minority Report", a regular White Board and stikies are good
enough. This is how we started on our current project - the classic way. An interesting observation I've made while going through several attempts to track the progress of a project at several companies - an attempt to "modernize" stickies and get rid of the board. Ways are multiple, from virtualization of the board, to going back to a file based tracking (Excel/Word). -
Am I Agile? No. Will I Be? Yes.
Being a developer for 8 years, I went through the classic path of a green newbie knowing nothing, to a more mature developer aware of the flaws, till the current stage where I realize that I wasted too much time on too many things that are not important, when important things are not new and shiny, but old and proved by the time. Waterfall, Spiral, Agile – all titles, what I want to share is the experience I had for the past a year+.
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Baha’is in Iran
This is political, skip it if it’s not what you normally would like to read.
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“Light Weight” Base Classes
Base classes are a touchy subject. Some might advocate for it, some will against it.
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C# in Depth
Finished reading "C# in Depth" by Jon Skeet. Good reading, especially if you have to catch up from C# 1.0 or 2.0 to the latest 3.0. The other one I would like to read now will have to be a mix of this book (without 1.0/2.0 materials) and the excellent "CLR via C#" by Jeffery Richter. -
Switching IoC Container with LINQ Expressions
Several last projects I used a simple IoC container, leveraging Activator.CreateInstance(type). The main reason - simplicity. Once there was a need to go to a higher level, I would switch to Windsor Container. One of the projects used Unity. The only issue was that I would always have to do some customization to my container (or DependencyResolver), which is nothing but a static gateway.
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Right Tool for the Right Job - Part 2
In the previous post I talked about running test in Resharper vs. TestDriven.NET
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Possible Bug in Rhino.Mocks 3.5
Seems like there's a bug in Rhino.Mocks 3.5 in regards to stubbed dependency (stubbing property getter and a behavior in certain order). Anyone knows something about it?
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Exploratory Tests
My team is off the spike project we had, and I wanted to share a bit about exploratory tests.
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Right Tool for the Right Job
I used R# as a test runner tool. Nice UI (see my older posts), nicely integrated with Gallio. Just one issue - unrealistically slow when compared with a non-visual tool. And then our team member David showed us old-and-forgotten TestDriven.NET.
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Reporting Impediments
During the scrums we report what we did yesterday, planning to do today, and what are the impediments. Impediments sometimes tend to sound like a complaint. So what to do to prevent it become just "bitching" about things? -
Time Estimation for User Story
