I will be presenting on Pair Programming at the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group tonight. I have done this presentation several times before but it is always fun to hear new perspectives – tonight should be interesting to hear DBA turned developer opinions (many people in this user group...

I will be presenting on Pair Programming at the Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group tonight. I have done this presentation several times before but it is always fun to hear new perspectives – tonight should be interesting to hear DBA turned developer opinions (many people in this user group...

I will be presenting on Pair Programming (something we practice daily at Thycotic ) tonight at the Washington DC Extreme Programming User Group . The session involves an exercise (which I have blogged about before ) but it is always interesting to hear peoples opinions and past experiences. Pair Programming...

I will be presenting on Pair Programming (something we practice daily at Thycotic ) tonight at the Washington DC Extreme Programming User Group . The session involves an exercise (which I have blogged about before ) but it is always interesting to hear peoples opinions and past experiences. Pair Programming...

We have just moved our offices from the Vienna, Virginia area to downtown Washington DC. We now have more space for our team room and have tried new strategies to minimize wiring and optimize communication across the team. Here is a picture of 2 pairing stations in the new team room. The desks are part...

Thycotic is growing once again – we are looking for another top calibre developer to join our team - this is a great opportunity to practice agile techniques on the Microsoft .NET platform from an experienced team while working on great products and with interesting clients. We are looking for...

I have been asked a number of times in the last few years if I think TDD (Test Driven Development) will go mainstream. Firstly, we need to agree on what mainstream is – Wikipedia does not give any hard numbers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream ) but it seems like 20% would be a good number...

A very intelligent person once said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." The person in question, is of course none other than Sir Isaac Newton . He was able to go further with his discoveries because others had solved some of the details already and provided a layer...

Many developers in our industry prefer a dark corner to the presentation podium. This is often explained away with references to introverted personalities and geekish tendencies. While this may be true for certain individuals, there are definitely many benefits to breaking away from this stereotype....

Our very own Bryant Smith has revamped his conversion of Martin Fowler's refactoring example (originally in Java) to now cover both C# and VB.NET. You can find the article here with the relevant downloads and walkthrough. Martin Fowler's example works nicely because it is a simple class structure that...