Wayne Allen's Weblog
pragmatic agility
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BuildIt
BuildIt is a new build tool from MS (via Sapient Corp.)
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Terrorism Humor
ATTENTION
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Hmm
How evil are you? -
Fred Rogers 1928-2003
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Cool VS.NET Feature
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How to be a Programmer
Mike Gunderloy turned me on to this paper by Robert L. Read.
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Ingo's Distributed .NET Newsletter
From Ingo - his free "Distributed .NET Newsletter". After reading his book and his weblog for a while I appreciate his straightforward approach. Sign up, I did.
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I am
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Pair Programming
Today was a great day! After spending most of yesterday and this morning chasing down a deployment bug that turned out to be a mis-registered COM object (worked in DEV, but not in QA) I spent the rest of the day pair programming with a new employee. We decided as part of his orientation that we should develop an extension to the ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings to be aware of the environment the code was running in. This has been a desired feature for some time now as we spent too much time twidling config files after deployment. After consulting with a couple of other developers on the design we plowed ahead, test-first.
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Shuttle
Like many I am saddened by the loss of the crew of Columbia. It is one of those defining tragedies in the collective memory. I still remember the exact place I heard about President Reagan being shot, the Challenger explosion, 9/11 and now the Columbia.