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...

At 5:00am on Saturday morning, I headed in to downtown DC to get some prizes and a few books from the Thycotic office. Then off to collect Ryan Olshan at 5:30, and John Morales at 5:45. We hit 95 and headed south for Richmond. The drive was uneventful with most of us still in pre-coffee haze and Bob...

Thycotic is sponsoring our first ever vendor booth at the Verify 2006 Conference in Crystal City, VA (Washington DC Metro Area). The conference is all about testing, testing frameworks and tools but from a quality assurance and developer perspective. Thycotic is well versed in testing since we practice...

There was a good turnout for the Verify 2006 Conference especially since it is the very first year of the conference. The attendees were typically software testers or software development managers. There weren’t many developers so the Thycotic crew was a little out of our comfort zone but they...

While at the Verify 2006 Conference , I got to catch up with Jeremy Kadlec (one of our local NOVASQL User Group leaders) and found out about some of the new things that Edgewood Solutions are doing. The Edgewood team, who are experts in Microsoft SQL Server, are now publishing a daily Microsoft SQL Server...

Or, do androids know they're dreaming of electric sheep... There was some recent news on Windows Vista EULA restrictions relating to Virtual Machines . Vista Home Editions aren't allowed to be run inside a Virtual Machine, and Vista Ultimate in a VM will restrict access to applications which...

I am surprised at a new trend (ok, so only based on 2 experiences recently) but companies will make their product available for free (as in beer), get a lot of users and market share - then discontinue the free edition and start charging. TestDriven.NET AVG While I understand the appeal of such a strategy...

This last Wednesday, myself and two other members of the Thycotic team presented at the WinProTeam Rockville meeting. Topic : Data Access Strategies for your .NET Development Three sessions presented by members of our Thycotic team – John Morales , Ryan Olshan and me. 1. ADO.NET Interfaces and...