Chomping the dog food with a nice Chardonnay
Joel Spolsky has written an interesting piece about the idea of “eating your own dogfood” which simply means using your own software - people who buy dogfood don’t eat it. Over the years, I have seldom been in the position to use the software that Thycotic Software Ltd has developed. The software has usually been [...]
DC Housing Market versus 70-320
This weekend we purchased a condo in the Washington DC area and I passed the Microsoft 70-320 exam (”Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework”). The natural question for any techie then would be: which was harder?
Let’s weigh up the contenders:
DC House Purchase
Compete with at [...]
Eric Sink talks through the Team System pricing question.
Eric Sink discusses his views on why Team System is priced at its current level and also may set you straight on what you do and don’t get with MSDN Universal. MSDN Universal is a wonderful product and probably a great way to get pricey (more than $2000) server products into the hands of those [...]
Maintenance Complexity leads to more methods?
Mark Miller talks about a new metric he is calling Maintenance Complexity. The system assigns operators and constructs a point score representing their contributing complexity. A method is then analyzed and all the points add up to yield the Maintenance Complexity score. I like the concept but tackling a report of complex methods would probably [...]
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