John Morales is blogging!
John Morales joined thycotic back in October and has
been impressing us since the start with his knowledge ofkeyboard shortcuts
(howoften do you see *your* fellow developers writing their own macros in
VS.NET?), Regular Expressions, Resharper, DotLucene and his ability to
solveproblems. After a little prodding, we now have him blogging with a few gems already on
Regular
Expressions, a
great CruiseControl.NET [...]
thycotic becomes a Custom Development Microsoft Certified Partner
Our company, thycotic, has become a Microsoft Certified
Partner in the new Custom Development
competency that was launched in November 2005. This is the result of
hardwork on the part of our development team in completing Microsoft
Certification exams and many successful project experiences from our
clients.
We have also been working towards the Independent
Software Vendor (ISV) competency for the last [...]
Interview with FusionAuthority on TDD to a ColdFusion audience
I was recently interviewed by Judith Dinowitz in this
article from FusionAuthority. The interview
came about after I blogged
about my experiences presenting TDD at our local Maryland Cold Fusion User Group.
Jonathan Cogley isthe CEO and founder of
thycotic, a .NET consulting company and ISV in Washington DC. thycotic has
just released Thycotic Secret Server which is a secure web-based [...]
Keep the numbers meaningful in Security Reviews
I just came across this
post (older) by Robert
Hurlbut titled “DREAD is dead” and it reminded me of our experiences with
these same ratings today. We are in the middle of a Security Review for a
client and have been working through our threat model to assess the risk
associated with each item. DREAD is a technique for assessing [...]
Automatic reporting of client-side script exceptions
Error reporting is enormously powerful.
Knowing when your customers are seeing errors is the first step to improving
thequalityof your application.
In my previous
post, I mentioned capturing client-side script exceptions while discussing a
dreaded hot fix that had to be made. You may have been wondering exactly
what I was talking about and if it might be useful for your
applications?
Hopefully [...]
Working around global.asax at runtime
While this doesn’t classify as great development
practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix toa production site is just the
right thing to solve a client’s problem quickly. In our case, the problem
was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions (our own custom
Exception that is thrown when a Javascript onerror event fires in the browser
… yes, we [...]
Refactoring is not free (so defer it)
Paul Gielens has an interesting post discussing the cost of refactoring and deciding when to doso. I agree with Paul that refactoring is certainly not free and is in fact a very expensive process since it lacks one of the central benefits of Test Driven Development – knowing when you are done! The process of [...]
When should ports go native?
Our product, Secret
Server, uses the DotLucene
API for searching of items (”secrets”) in
the application. DotLucene is an impressive API which creates index files
on disk based on the data you feed to it. It then allows for some very
powerful text searches to find data such as “amazon.com~” which will find all
secrets containing various spellings of amazon.com. (Moreinfo
here).
The [...]
Summer Internship in Software Development with TDD and .NET
This is an opportunity to get incredible work experience with hardcore .NET consultants defining the current state of the art in Agile .NET development. A Thycotic Summer Internship in Software Development will allow you to work on interestingprojects (such as Secret Server) and develop your own solutions working with security protocols, open source software and [...]
