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May 2008 - Evan Hoff

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  • Retaining Good People

    This is largely common sense, but I'd bet there's a large number of IT shops out there that haven't picked up on this yet. Do you want to keep the best people on your staff? Make sure you have career paths for them. If there aren't clear...

  • Estimating System Load

    One of the initial steps that every non-trivial project should go through revolves around determining system usage requirements. Here's a no-nonsense method for tackling this issue head-on. 1. Anticipate Usage and Usage Patterns A prudent developer...

  • And You Thought Your Deployments Were Tough

    Did you know: eBay deploys a new release every 2 weeks They add roughly 100 KLOC per week to the codebase That should be a little extra motivation to work on removing the waste and increasing the flow of getting your application out the door. If they...

  • On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware

    I'm going to take a quote from Daniel Simmons on why we should use the Entity Framework . I'm not specifically interested in his comparison with NHibernate because I think the following is true of many current O/RMs (whatever your personal flavor...

  • Don't Do That

    Over lunch today, I learned about one of the company's recent acquisitions. Here's the short of it: The production system has between 6k-7k different Access databases (databases, not tables) Since the app creates new databases on the fly, no one...

  • A Very Poor Object Model Is Really No Object Model At All

    First let me say that I've met Keith personally, and he's a really cool guy. Cool enough in fact, that he's on my RSS subscription list. I'd consider him a friend. :-) This is my response to his recent post, How To Not Screw Up Your Application...

  • A Reader Challenge

    This is a simple challenge. I want you to figure this out for yourself. It's an important step I think every developer needs to take for him/herself. Also, please don't give any direct answers in the comments or I will delete them. Non-answer...
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