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March 2005 - Posts

The rule of 4....

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:57 PM

Craig Andera elucidates the reason we...ok *I*...(and a few other people i know ) always seem to underestimate the length of time it will take to finish a project. I have been using "The rule of 2" for a few years, and even that has left me high and dry at times...according to Craig I should change to "The rule of 4", since any complete application that has to be put into production actually consists of at least 4 smaller application components, the last 3 I always forget to include in my estimates...

  1. The app itself
  2. The tests
  3. The build
  4. The installer
  5. (?) Documentation

As Craig says: "Each needs to be written, tested, patched, documented, and supported. This also means that the app itself represents well south of 50% of the code, and probably less than 30%."

Whilst I don't think that is accurate for the last few projects I have been on (dire shortage of unit testing!), it does pay to bear in mind when you hand in your time estimates that you are going to be writing more than one application!

[From here, via The Daily Grind 590]

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VS2005 Pricing & Licensing

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:40 PM

Mike Gunderloy breaks it down for you here, and it is not all good news by any stretch...

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Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:31 PM

Tired of getting spammed to death and looking for a new email account? Spam bots will never track this one down...neither will any of your colleagues and friends either for that matter...

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/

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[Only relevant to SAfricans] iBurst from Fusion Reactor

Friday, March 11, 2005 8:30 PM

After reading Paul Sainsbury's stream of praise for Fusion Reactor over on Tinderblog*  a week or so ago, I decided it was high time I threw out my dialup modem and went wireless.

Ever since then I have been thinking that I should blog about their customer service (excellent), their replies (prompt) and their offering in general...

I could wax lyrical about all of these, but I am only going to say this: I just downloaded the November Avalon CTP bits. All 261.45 Mb of it. In 46 minutes.

Get it here (iBurst that is, you can get the CTP here).

* Was nice to meet you btw - I am sorry we didn't get a good chance to chat at the UG meeting.

PS - Right now I am sitting in a quiet restaurant, catching up on some blog reading and waiting for my linefish......wireless broadband rocks.

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BlogIT

Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:03 PM

I just read this on ITWeb (not sure why I still bother with it, since it is 98% press releases (mostly I don't (sometimes i just scan through (when i am (really) bored))))...

"* Editor's note: Having considered both the pros and the cons of blogging, ITWeb is about to launch a blogging service – BlogIT."

And this from an IT news site that has yet to figure out what an RSS feed is...riiiiiiiight.

I wonder perhaps if the real reason for this move is that they are finding that more and more people no longer bother with wading knee deep through marketing bile trying to find anything of value and are now switching to getting their daily fix from the unfiltered, uncensored free-to-say-whatever-you-like-about-anything world that is The Blogosphere?

Thats my theory anyway.

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SADEV UG Meeting: 9 March - Venue confirmed

Friday, March 04, 2005 4:15 PM

The folks over at Torque-IT have been cool enough to let us use their auditorium for the meeting next wednesday (directions as per map below).

PLEASE rsvp here, here or here so that we can get an idea of the catering requirements. If you are reading this to late to rsvp, dont worry just come anyway! We will also have some goodies to give away (thanks Ruari), so hope to see you all there.

 

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SADEV UG Meeting: 9 March

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:02 PM

It is great to see some international heavyweights starting to show an interest in SaDeveloper.net - last month it was Scoble in the forums, this month we have Jorge Oblitas, a Microsoft Regional Director who has made himself available to meet the local community and give a talk on some features of the up and coming version of ASP.NET...

 

Topic                "ASP.NET 2.0"

 

                                    1. Introduction to Membership and Personalization

2. Extensibility by using providers

3. The portal framework

4. Controls of the portal framework

5. Zones

6. Communication between webparts (time permitting)

 

Speaker            “Jorge Oblitas in an independent Knowledge Management consultant, who has worked with Web technologies since 1997. Because of his work he has been recognized as Microsoft Regional Director since the year 2000 and member of the Microsoft Partner Advisory Council in Collaboration and portal solutions the same year.

As a Knowledge Management consultant he design Intranets for some of the largest companies including international Telcos and banca.

The last 3 years he spent his time helping Microsoft Latin America develop community programs like FIVE STARS DEVELOPER (an online training program who rewards students with stars and recognition) and Panorama BOX (a web site who help people to become authors). As a founder of many users groups in Peru and conferences in other countries he understand what developers need and tries to relate this with business (he is an economist). All his conferences and demos are related to business and the role of the developer in it, not as an isolated piece but a key thinking piece in the business world.”


You can find his English blog here: http://truesouth.blogspot.com or in his home page (in Spanish) here: www.icuadrado.com

 

Date                 9 March 2005

 

Time                 17h45 for 18h00

 

Venue               Torque-IT

 

 

 



[UPDATE: Venue confirmed]
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