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...

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...

Scott Hanselman wrote about being put off by a resume submission with this sort of e-mail signature: Joe Blow, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCT, MCP. He jokingly (?) proposed that we sign our names with something a bit more useful: Scott Hanselman, 11 Successful Large Projects, 3 Open Source Applications, 1 Collossal...

BoingBoing linked to a distributed program attack on an encryption puzzle on Perspex City called Assault on 13th Labour . What caught my eye was the fact that it's a .NET console application which runs on Mac and Linux under Mono as well as Windows under the Microsoft.NET runtime. A cross platform distributed...

James Higgs asks a great question: Was the Death Star built using waterfall? My favorite part (quoting from the beginning of Star Wars Episode VI): VADER: The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation. JERJERROD: But he asks the impossible. I need more men. VADER: Then perhaps...

A comment on my post about the SQL/e announcement said it sounds a lot like SQLite . The subject warrents a separate post. SQLite is a great embedded database. It's free, open source, small, fast, ACID compliant , and frequently updated. SQLite is an ideal embedded database provided you don't care about...

Mike Gunderloy, one of our early adopters, has added our Secret Server 1.1 release to the Daily Grind today! This is a huge compliment from a guru in tools, development and the developer community. Thanks Mike! If you don't know about the Daily Grind , read all about it here . Jonathan Cogley is the...

It is a wonderful feeling to ship software - it has been a long hard slog to get this round of features complete. Especially while juggling our developers across various projects and client work. This is also a welcome release as we get to use all the new features in our own company Secret Server instance...

I haven't blogged in a few weeks but I have a few good reasons. Client projects with tight deadlines, the final push for our second big release of Thycotic Secret Server and also holding back on the irresistable urge to talk about features that aren't released yet (not much of a marketing person, huh...