Archives
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Together Developer for Visual Studio.NET
Borland has released a version of Together Developer that integrates into VS.NET. Check out the screen casts. I'm thinking that Together combined with ReSharper from JetBrains could be one killer combination.
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Perspectives: A User Interface Approach Appropriate for Agile Methods?
Scott Came turned me on to a UI concept called "Perspectives" that is well implemented in Eclipse. The project has some documentation and an overview that is an interesting read.
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HDD DVD to Spell the End of Big Media as we know it?
Mike Rogers writes about how HDD DVD will change everthing.
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Combining Google Maps with CraigsList Housing - Cool Stuff
Greg Hughes turned me on to this site which combines the extremely cool Google Maps interface with the Craigs List housing listings in such a seamless way that it is hard to believe that the data comes from two completely separate sources. Check it out!
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Build Servers - Love 'em & Hate 'em
Jim Shore wrote about why he doesn't like Cruise Control. I agree to some extent with his points that the reason teams use it is to catch build errors and deal with "slow" builds. Having implemented both Draco.NET and CruiseControl.NET and toyed with FinalBuilder I am not overly impressed with any of them. My impression is that I spend way to much time fiddling the build server for the value added. I will say that I would still implement a build server for any team for the single reason that "people are fallible". People forget to commit related changes, or add files to CVS, run tests, etc. The build server never does.
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The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin
Are CDs about to become extinct?
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Chefs, Contracting Officers, and Sisyphus: Musings of a Business Analyst
Fellow Guild member Matt Deniston has a great post on the difficulties of analyzing business requirements for an integration project.
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Introducing Agile to a Legacy Project
Brian Marick has another great post. This time he talks about how to transition a team working on legacy code to a more agile approach.
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Discovering MIME types
I've been working on a little application to scratch an itch and I ran across the need to tell whether a certain file was an audio file or not. Rather than having a list of extensions (*.mp3, *.wma, ...) I decided to see if I could dig out the MIME type that Windows tracks.