April 2008 - Chad Myers' Blog - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

The Problem Preventer

Problem Statement I'm thinking about putting ' Problem Preventer ' on my resume. Many of the folks I'm talking with in interviews and phone screens don't seem to get this at all. I get a lot of questions about problems solved, etc...

Published Fri, Apr 25 2008 5:47 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Principles, Mangement

Two random thoughts

1 - Support open source in the .NET realm. Ray Houston posted about this . We helped prod Hammet into putting up a donate link for the Castle Project . I suggest investing $25, $50, or $100. I say 'investing' because it's not charity. It's...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 9:47 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Mangement

Move to Austin

That's it. Just do it. Yes, I know... I understand... Stop thinking about excuses for no and start thinking about reasons for Yes. It's a really cool place. There is hip happening stuff going in the .NET, Java, Ruby, and Python spaces (among many...

Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 11:31 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: Austin

Remote Pairing and Screencasting

I'm starting to question the value of blogging as a way of rallying community efforts. I'm inclined to focus more on article-style blogging vs. conversational-style blogging and moving the conversation to Skype+VNC and recording the interactions...

Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 2:05 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: CodingDojo, altdotnet

Engaging Microsoft

Many Microsoft employees were at the ALT.NET conf in Seattle -- including many of the ones that have been criticized publicly by the greater ALT.NET community. Not only was Microsoft there, but they were a sponsor and a few employees were even on the...

Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 1:55 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Programming, altdotnet

Dear JetBrains, RE: Resharper 4 EAP Nightlies

Dear JetBrains, Thank you for putting it all on the line and having the stones to do public nightly builds as part of your ReSharper 4.0 EAP. It takes a lot to hang it all out there like that and risk suffering public humiliation from some of the most...

Published Mon, Apr 07 2008 4:21 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc, .NET, ReSharper

Agile Arguments, Part 2 - Background, and Arguments from Fear

In this second part to my ongoing Agile Arguments series , I want to go into a little background and cover a little bit about (what I think) Agile is about and it's purpose and values. I'd like to also talk a little bit about why I think this...

Published Sun, Apr 06 2008 12:25 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Agile, Agile Arguments

If you suddenly had a week of free time...

I'm gonna take a minute away from my regularly scheduled blog posts (GoF patterns, Agile Arguments, etc) and seek wisdom from the Collective. Aside from spending more time with the family and the kids, doing some networking and career building, there's...

Published Sun, Apr 06 2008 12:02 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc

Agile Arguments, Part 1 - The Kickoff

Kickoff First, let me say that this post has nothing to do with recent events in my employment situation other than it was a the final small straw on the beleaguered camel's back that is my patience with half-baked, poorly implemented and poorly-understood...

Published Thu, Apr 03 2008 9:53 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Agile, Agile Arguments

Ancient wisdom is inescapable, especially with project management

Introduction Today was my last day with my current former employer, as you may have heard from my (also now-former) coworker. We quit on principle after having several irreconcilable differences of opinions with our management over how to manage and execute...

Published Wed, Apr 02 2008 10:06 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Programming, Mangement, Agile

Pablo's Topic of the Month - April: Design Patterns

Pablo's Topic of the Month - April: Design Patterns Over the next few days and weeks, the Los Techies crew will be writing a number of blog posts focused a particular subject in addition to their regular blogging. Pablo's Topic of the Month for...

Published Tue, Apr 01 2008 10:20 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Programming, Principles, PTOM, Patterns

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