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• How did I get started in software development?

  Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I'll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore Vic-20 (yeah, that's right baby... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:04 PM by chadmyers with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Programming

• 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... Posted Apr 21 2008, 01:55 AM by chadmyers with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Programming, altdotnet

• 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... Posted Apr 02 2008, 10:06 PM by chadmyers with | with 12 comment(s) 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... Posted Apr 01 2008, 10:20 PM by chadmyers with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Principles, PTOM, Patterns

• Time-to-Login-Screen, and the absolute basic requirements for good software

  I went and hung out with some fellow developers on Saturday (at the Grist Mill in New Braunfels, TX , incidentally -- wonderful place!) and we talked about all sorts of things on the way down, there, and back up. One of the things that particularly stuck... Posted Mar 16 2008, 10:56 AM by chadmyers with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Principles

• PTOM: The Liskov Substitution Principle

  The Liskov Substitution Principle In my first (of hopefully more than one) post for The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles effort, I'm going to talk about The Liskov Substitution Principle, as made popular by Robert... Posted Mar 11 2008, 11:57 PM by chadmyers with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Programming, Principles, PTOM

• Ping-pong Pairing, it's not just for breakfast anymore

  Yesterday was my first day working at my new employer, Bayern Software , with (name drop alert!) Jeremy Miller . We started right off with an easy story doing ping-pong pairing. I really dig this method of doing development (not to mention pairing, not... Posted Mar 03 2008, 05:00 PM by chadmyers with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, Programming

• The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful

  Quick Background I admit, I've had a lot of failures with TDD. Mostly they were solo projects and I didn't have the discipline and self control enough to stick with it. I ALWAYS regretted not sticking with it. However poorly I was doing it, it... Posted Feb 12 2008, 10:08 PM by chadmyers with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Programming, CodingDojo

• 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

  (Found via DotNetKicks -- please kick it there , don't kick this post) Link: http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quotes/ Some of my faves: “There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.” (Edward Tufte... Posted Jan 12 2008, 09:31 AM by chadmyers with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming