The Benefits of Pair Programming
The Agile practice of Pair Programming is one of the more controversial development techniques within the software development community. The controversy lies in the question of how two programmers working together on the same code can be more productive than the same two programmers writing code individually.
Pair Programming and Pandemics
lthough in the past our team has conducted remote pairing with some success, our day to day development requires that two programmers need to sit across from each other at the same pairing station sometimes for several days. Now it does not take a genius to see that this situation would be ideal for the passing and spread of communicable diseases.
A stranger in a strange land: A graphic designer in a dot NET Agile sprint planning world
I still don’t know squat about programming- for the purpose of Agile sprint planning, I really don’t need to. I only need a grasp of how or what is going to be done based on it’s relative difficulty to other tasks.
Refactoring Code: A Programmers Challenge
Today I encountered a question on the ASP.NET Forum that I got quite excited about, “How do I refactor this?” Refactoring is a big part of our daily coding practices and I was curious as to what other programmers would come up with.
When you apply for a job, read the job posting!
I am constantly amazed by the number of job candidates who apply for a position without reading the job posting. We are currently hiring for three positions:
Agile .NET Developer
Agile .NET Developer Internship
Graphics Designer
All three involve *doing* something in order to be considered for the position – for the developer positions it requires completing [...]
Learning from your Burn Down chart
The chart to the left represents the Burn Down chart for the Secret Server 4.1 release which shipped on March 14th 2008. We have always shipped Secret Server on the published date (or in the early hours of morning the next day!) but this release pushed things a little too close for our liking. [...]
Secret Server 4.0 has shipped!
We were hoping to ship one day early but a few delays in getting some updated artwork and some of the upgrade documentation caused us to ship yesterday on the scheduled day. Secret Server has never missed a launch date since first being released in November 2005 – this is something we attribute to [...]
Removing dead code
What does your code terrain look like? Are there bodies of dead logic lying here and there? Maybe they helped briefly while you worked towards a better solution or perhaps they just fell victim to changing business rules.
At a recent Code Camp, there was a question about code generation and I answered that we [...]
