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Agile: Spikes With TDD - My Conundrum - 333 days ago

Leonardo da Vinci, when he painted Il Cenacolo, or as we call it here in the US, The Last Supper, produced sketches or studies for the work before he began to paint.  Later, when the painting was restored in the 1970s, researchers used infrared...
Topics: Agile Development, Spike, TDD

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Scrum / Agile Development and Team Consciousness - 336 days ago

improve my => 'code' One of the interesting features of Agile development is the regular feedback created by the methodology. Continuous builds, especially when they show graphically when they are broken or have failing unit tests, give...
Topics: Agile Development, Personal, Scrum

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Coding With Comments - 343 days ago

improve my => 'code' Jeff Atwood wrote an interesting post today about Coding Without Comments. If you didn't catch it, he basically says that if a coder uses excellent naming conventions in his code, the code is eminently readable.  So.
Topics: Agile Development, Critique, Scrum

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Scrum / Agile Development: A Renaissance of Culture Through the Eyes of Levi-Strauss - 349 days ago

On weekends, I tend to go off tangent, and this weekend is no exception.  I started to read some of the works of Levi-Strauss, the structural anthropologist, and it occurred to me that many of the positive changes from Agile Development are not merely...
Topics: Agile Development, Anthropology, Management, Scrum

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Hint for today - Install SQL Server 2008 - 374 days ago

Even if your databases are from prior versions of SQL Server, you should download the new CTP for SQL Server 2008. https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5395 The new version's SQL Server Management Studio will...

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