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Theory Of Constraints: Productivity Metrics in Software Development

In the past, I’ve been a true believer that software development is not really possible to measure from a productivity perspective. I was ignorant, basically. I’m now a bit wiser and I understand that software development is no different than any other...

Published Fri, Jul 03 2009 1:38 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Throughput, E-Books, Theory Of Constraints, Productivity, Metrics

How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs

I have the following object model: An Office belongs to one Office Group. An Office also belongs to one Office Region. There is no relationship between Office Group and Office Region. They are two separate groupings for various reasons. A Counselor...

Published Thu, Jun 25 2009 4:26 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Unit Testing, .NET, Data Access, C#, Security

Cloning Or Converting Linux VM From VMWare Workstation To ESX Server: ETH0 Gone. ETH1 Available?

I ran into a fun situation yesterday. I downloaded a virtual appliance for the Agilo Trac Plugin (which, if you’re a Trac user and trying to do sprints or iterations with it, you need to get this. It’s free and it rocks.) Turns out this VM is a Debian...

Published Sat, Jun 20 2009 2:57 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Linux, Networking

A Kanban Is Just A Signal To Do Work

A kanban is a signal to do something . I don’t think kanban implies a pull-based system, honestly. Joe Ocampo showed it best in his Scrumban presentation at Austin Code Camp: That’s not a signal to pull anything… it’s a signal to RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 5:10 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Lean Systems, Kanban, Workflow

I’m Presenting SOLID At North Dallas .NET (NDDNUG), July 8th

On Wednesday, July 8th, I’m scheduled to give my SOLID presentation at NDDNUG , up in Plano, TX. I don’t know if anyone up there remembers me, but NDDNUG was the first user group that I ever went to. I worked in Richardson, TX, for more than 4 years,...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2009 5:24 PM by derick.bailey

The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity

A Junior-Heavy Organization Companies tend to staff various teams with an experience level of employees that have a very junior heavy bias. That is, for every person with senior level experience in the organization, there tend to be multiple mid level...

Published Sun, Jun 07 2009 7:59 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Philosophy of Software, Management, Quality

Violating CQS. Looking For Suggestions And Alternatives.

When doing simple input validation on forms, I often end up writing a lot of code like this: public void SaveRequested() { bool descriptionIsValid = ValidateDescription(); bool abbreviationIsValid = ValidateAbbreviation(); bool isValid = (descriptionIsValid...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2009 2:50 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, C#

I’m Presenting SOLID At AlamoCoders On June 9th

I may be jumping the gun a bit, since it’s not posted on the AlamoCoders site, yet. :) The AlamoCoders site has been updated to show my presentation. Please note that there is a different start time than usual - 5:30pm – to facilitate the 1.5 hours+ that...

Published Wed, Jun 03 2009 5:25 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Principles and Patterns, C#, Presentations

Austin Code Camp 2009 Was A Ton-O-Fun!

First and foremost - thanks to John Teague and Eric Hexter for organizing such a great event. It was as good, if not better than any of the previous Code Camps. The content was tremendous, the speakers were great, the attendees were passionate and eager...

Published Mon, Jun 01 2009 12:33 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Austin Code Camp

Announcing Pablo’s E-Books! Book #1: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development

Hello World! I’m happy to announce the first Los Techies compiled, Pablo endorsed, E-Book: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development “S.O.L.I.D. is a collection of best-practice object-oriented design principles that you can apply to your design to accomplish...

Published Tue, May 19 2009 9:37 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Principles and Patterns, E-Books

Result<T>: Directing Workflow With A Return Status And Value

I often code user interfaces that have some sort of cancel button on them. For example, in my upcoming ‘ Decoupling Workflow ’ presentation, I have the following screen: Notice the nice cancel button on the form. The trick to this situation is that I...

Published Tue, May 19 2009 10:35 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Principles and Patterns, .NET, C#, Presentations, Workflow

A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File

As a recent convert to the awesomeness that is git (my current flavor is msysgit ), I find myself continuously needing to update the .gitignore file that I copy and paste between my repositories. Here’s what my ignore file currently contains: obj bin...

Published Mon, May 18 2009 10:55 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Git

I’m Presenting At Austin Code Camp 2009

As Chad so eloquently stated, this year’s AustinCodeCamp really is going to be better than bacon ! And I feel honored to be one of the better than bacon speakers at this year’s event. I’m delivering two presentations: The SOLID presentation that I gave...

Published Mon, May 18 2009 9:29 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Principles and Patterns, .NET, Austin Code Camp, Presentations

Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation

I know I’m late jumping on this bandwagon, but it’s better late than never, right? :) I decided to try out the Balsamiq Mockups tool while working on my sample application for the ‘ Decoupling Workflow from Forms ’ presentation that I’m planning (hoping...

Published Thu, May 14 2009 9:25 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: User Experience, Product Reviews

FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive!

A few months ago, a coworker created a set of extension methods to turn NHibernate ’s Criteria API into a more fluenty, strongly typed API. We’ve been using it in a production app for a few months, and I wanted to share it with the world. After talking...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 10:14 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, .NET, NHibernate, Git, Fluent NHibernate, FNH.Contrib

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