I will be giving a presentation on Refactoring in C# at RockNUG on Wednesday March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm.  Directions here . What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? :) Come along to learn how to clean code like the Thycotic team. What do we...

I will be presenting on Refactoring in C# at the Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) on March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm. Refactoring in C# - Bad code to better code What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? :) Come along to learn how to clean code like...

I attended my first event at the new Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) in Maryland tonight.  Geoff Snowman , our local Microsoft integration specialist showed off the latest BizTalk Server (BTS) technology and talked about the future of BTS and its related products.  As Geoff pointed out...

Do you breathe agile? Do your progress bars always turn green? Do you refactor in your sleep? Then I need you for the agile track … We are looking for attendees, speakers and volunteers! This is the first Mid-Atlantic Code Camp to have an official Agile track (and I am the track chair –...

I will be presenting on Test Driven Development at the CMAP Architect Group in Maryland. Session details and directions here . Abstract: TDD is hard. It is hard because we have to unlearn the way many of us have always coded. Instead we have to start writing unit tests and what is more; we have to write...

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...

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...

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...

Developers who simply work for a paycheck have different priorities so I am going to ask you to forget about them for a minute. If you joined software development out of pure passion for the industry then you have a different agenda. Building software is a very creative and constructive process but the...

I will be presenting at the WinProTeam Vienna .NET Users Group on 3/1/2006 at 6pm. We use NAnt and CruiseControl.NET for all of our products and client projects. The power of a continuous build for improved quality, rapid feedback and engaging your customer is enormous! The arrival of MSBuild and its...