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Some Random Thoughts on Adopting an Agile SDLC
13 February 08 11:50 AM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)
I'm currently part of a team that needs to re-define our company's SDLC methodology. I'm all for using a more agile SDLC ( Scrum , Open UP etc.) as the current SDLC methodology is based on a Waterfall model of software development. In the past 2 years, a few projects have attempted to use a more Agile SDLC , but they either failed miserably in their attempt or only succeeded in implementing some of the technical aspects of agile development like Continuous Integration (CI) and Test Driven...
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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...
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Izindaba #18
16 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools - So Little Time! - Jesse Liberty tries to summarize when to use what tools for doing Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 development. Code Metrics as Check-in Policy - The Code Analysis Team shows how to prevent...
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Izindaba #17
09 November 07 05:11 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - Excellent post from Daniel Moth that brings together all the links to the yummy goodness that is .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Debugger Visualisers for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod and MethodBase - Roy Osherove provides some cool debugger visualizers to view the IL generated for run-time DynamicMethods . How are value types implemented...
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Izindaba #16 Reloaded
01 November 07 09:42 PM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. As Windows Live Writer has kindly overwritten Izindaba #15 with the new Izindaba #16, I am re-posting the Izindaba #16 content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples...
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Izindaba #16
26 October 07 06:28 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples included) that show the future ASP.NET MVC Framework in action. Reference Implementation for the Web Client Software Factory ...
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Peopleware continued: Trust, E-factor
28 December 06 10:42 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)
In my previous post I highlighted some content from the Peopleware book that struck a chord with me. The book had me reflecting on the year past (that time of the year again ;-) and thinking on how we as a team at work failed/succeeded in addressing topics mentioned within the book. Our team is quite big (13-14 developers) and as a team leader trying to keep things running smoothly during the year was quite a challenge. I must say I learned a lot, but I still think we could have done better in quite...
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Quotes on software development
25 December 06 09:34 PM | cjlotz | 5 comment(s)
I've been reading through Peopleware - a highly recommended read for any serious developer/team leader/manager. Here are some quotes out of the book that I highlighted for myself that I thought I would share. Thoughts on time pressures/overtime "Overtime is like sprinting: It makes sense for the last hundred yards of the marathon for those with any energy left, but if you start sprinting in the first mile, you're just wasting energy" [p.16] "People under pressure don't work better; they just work...
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Agile development in SA?
01 October 06 01:36 PM | cjlotz | 3 comment(s)
We went through another round of interviews the past 2-3 weeks to find one or two additional resources for our development team. As we are keen followers of agile development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration etc. one of the key skills that we look for in candidates is some experience with these development techniques. I am sad to say that very few people that we interviewed had any prior experience with even only writing simple tests using NUnit. The standard answer...
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Windows Vista - World's longest running software project?
09 August 06 05:02 PM | cjlotz | with no comments
Reading this made me feel a bit better about the struggles we are having in developing software within a big corporate. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Continuous Integration and COM components
09 August 06 03:34 PM | cjlotz | with no comments
We've been debating the best way to integrate COM components into our Continuous Integration process via Subversion in our team. Currently we have set up all .NET components into a Lib folder to which we add references from the projects that reside within separate sub-directories underneath a Code folder. We also have a separate Sql folder that contains the scripted databases we use. This setup makes it possible to at any time setup a developer PC to a specific version of the source code by just...
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