Hiring internally
In our Brownfield Application Development book, and in previous posts on this blog, Kyle and I have talked about the different personalities that you can encounter while working on a development proje
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Apply SRP to your emails….please
I recently got an email that had no fewer than eight significant topics in it. Yes, it was a long email. As a result of this email I was unable to remember and act on all the different topics. Sound
Quick take on Bing
I’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s new, yet to be released, search engine (bing.com) for the last couple of days. Miguel Carrasco has done a pretty detailed review of it’s capabilities here.
A little more WCF NHibernate
As part of my recent changes to the WCF-NHibernate code I have, I declared that there wasn’t going to be a way to handle automatic transaction rollbacks when WCF faults were going to be raised. I was
The Possessive Developer
Wrapping up our first pass at Development Project Archetypes we look at a common culprit on brownfield teams. During your first week on the project you’re assigned to have a mentor who has written a l
The 'Oooo...Shiney!' Developer
For the final few posts in the Development Project Archetypes we’ll focus on developers. An incestuous cousin to the Front of the Magazine Architect, this developer is easily distracted by any new tec
The Enhancing Tester/QA
Still avoiding developers, we continue talking about archetypes… Usually found in the confines of an organization that has heavily silo’d roles and responsibilities, the Enhancing Tester will be assig
The Over Protective DBA
Deviating from the developer sphere, we continue the Development Project Archetypes… A good many application require access to a database. If you’re lucky, you’ll have free rein over the database to m
The Hero Developer
Another in the Archetypes series… Everyone loves a hero. The PM, the architects and the client relish the long hours he puts into delivering results. When the client is told we don’t have the budget o
WCF and nHibernate redux
A while back I posted about a small framework that I wrote to make handling of nHibernate Sessions easier in a WCF world. There were a couple of problems with it and I’ve spent some time fixing it re