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SDLC Progress

I've been spending the last month or two getting the SDLC procedures and infrastructure in place for the Silverlight release of our company's Enterprise Physical Asset Management system. We were already using Team Foundation Source Control but wanted to adopt SCRUM as our development methodology...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 09-01-2008
Izindaba #21

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...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 12-07-2007
FxCop

In previous posts about Code Metrics and Code Reviews , I explored some metrics and techniques that I felt should form part of any good software quality control process. One of the tools that I mentioned is FxCop. In this post I take a closer look at FxCop. I start by looking at how FxCop works and how...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-23-2007
Izindaba #19

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 11-23-2007
Izindaba #12

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Scott Guthrie has the details on some really cool new IIS7 extensions that are now available. Also listen to the TechNet Radio Interview on IIS7 with Bill Staples. Building...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 10-05-2007
Izindaba #11

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Armchair Agilist - Scott Bellware expresses his frustration with folks from within the .NET Community who keep on criticizing agile development without having done any actual agile development...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 09-28-2007
Code Reviews

Code reviews are a proven, effective way to minimize defects, improve code quality and keep code more maintainable. It encourages team collaboration and assists with mentoring developers. Yet, not many projects employ code reviews as a regular part of their development process. Why is this? Programmer...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 08-28-2007
Izindaba #6

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: NUnit 2.4.3 Released - Another update that includes mostly bug fixes. SketchPath - A XPath development and XML analysis tool. PowerShell Toolbox - Collection of PowerShell links. LLBLGen Pro v2.5 Released...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 08-24-2007
Izindaba #5

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: What's new with VS 2008 Express Editions - Somasegar highlights what VS 2008 features made it into the Express Editions. New VS 2008 Spelling Rules - The Code Analysis Team blogs about the FxCop...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 08-17-2007
Code Metrics

I've been wanting to do a post about code metrics for quite a while now - mostly to organize my thoughts on the topic as it is something that I want to introduce at work, but also to get some feedback from other people as to if and how they are using metrics to assist them in crafting quality code...

Posted to From the software development trenches (Weblog) by cjlotz on 01-02-2007

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