When you are writing code it is common to think "I may need XYZ" but I am not really going to need it, Agile advocates using the available time as best as possible and if you do not really need it then why waste time ? Agile also advocates refactoring to improve and tune your code and these two concepts...

Some software approaches run in cycles Gather requirements (sometimes) Write Code Test code (sometimes) Get the requirements wrong and the requirements change midway through writing the code and your writing more code or changing code and the time scale goes up (yes even if the deadline is unmoveable...

Martin Woodward has a great article on software estimation, why it is hard and what Agile brings to the table . The approach I have seen the most in the past is the grand old FITA analysis (Finger in The Air) estimate. Get it right and your on time, get it wrong all hell breaks loose (most of which cost...

Right now I'm working on a project that requires its own custom registration/authentication system and it got me thinking about object responsiblity and OO design. I'll pose this question and see what kind of opinions everyone has. I have a "User" class with the usual properties - first name, last name...

If you're like me, you like to keep an eye on what is being committed to your subversion repository. A while back, I posted how to create an RSS feed from your SVN commits . RSS feeds are cool, but CommitMonitor is cooler. This little tool sits in your system tray and notifies you when users commit changes...

Thought this might be useful. On a new project where you're using the Castle Windsor container for Dependency Injection, this is a handy spec to have: [ TestFixture ] public class When_starting_the_application : Spec { [ Test ] public void verify_Castle_Windsor_mappings_are_correct () { IWindsorContainer...

It's funny how the world works. A butterfly flaps it's wings in Brazil, and a tornado forms in Texas 1,000 miles away. Phil Haack posted a poll about unit test project structure and asked the very question we've come to on our current project. Should unit tests belong in their own project or as part...

I am constantly amazed by the number of job candidates who apply for a position without reading the job posting. We are currently hiring for three positions: Agile .NET Developer Agile .NET Developer Internship Graphics Designer All three involve *doing* something in order to be considered for the position...

When you’re coming to implement SOA for the first time you probably focused on the application and technology aspects, but as you drill deeper and deeper into it you’ll found out that going through SOA is actually changing every aspect that your IT department is working. I personally think that we shouldn...

I use CC.Net quite a lot now with Perforce and ClearCase and I was recently asked to help out a team who were having some problems. A CI project had been setup on CC.NET and it "seemed" to be running fine. Someone would checkin the file and the project would detect the changes. Unfortunately the files...