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“Bring a Laptop, Will Code” Events
“Bring a Laptop, Will Code” Events I’ve always found events where you are expected to participate by coding the most interesting. You can see how your fellow developers think, possibly see other...
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Organizational Risk
Transforming an organization is a difficult business. One common pattern is the development team takes up the charge, practicing scrum and XP techniques. However, they may find their agile team...
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Organizational Risk: Building Trust
In my last post, talking about Organizational Risk, I advocated for a meeting once per iteration with members of different departments to reduce the kinds of project throughput risks that can stem from...
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The Next Wave
The Current Wave JavaScript was the “Next Wave” maybe two years ago. JavaScript is in your database. JavaScript is on the server. JavaScript is on the client. JavaScript is in your network transport....
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Are Tech Tasks Useful Work?
A project I’m aware of recently started discussing in their retrospectives that they wanted to start assigning points to tech tasks. I’m a big believer in allowing a team to exercise control over its...
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Seven Reasons to Love Duck Angular
Duck Angular A team I’m working with saw a gap when they were testing AngularJS apps: Functional regression, while necessary, didn’t provide fast enough feedback. Using unit testing techniques they...
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ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Contract Testing
ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Contract Testing ServiceStack 4 comes with some really great new tools for accessing an HTTP resource using a fluent syntax. They make a great addition – sometimes the C#...
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Microsoft Open Sources .NET – The History Behind the Announcement
While I’m still surprised at the move, it’s not unprecedented – I think they’ve been letting the open source folks dabble for years now, and they’ve proven that it works. 2007/2008 – MS starts building...
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ServiceStack Cookbook
If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain...
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Alternative Web Frameworks for .NET: Nancy and ServiceStack
Tanuj Mathur and I presented at the .NET Unboxed conference about alternative web frameworks for .NET. We compared and contrasted Nancy, ServiceStack and ASP.NET WebAPI. The conference recorded it and...
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