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Free e-Book from Karl Seguin

I may be late on the band wagon on this one, but I just had the privilege of reading Karl Seguin's free e-book, "Foundations of Programming" . This is what Alt.NET is all about. Even if you disagree with Alt.NET or what it stands for, please...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 2:19 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Books, Agile

PTOM: Single Responsibility Principle

The Single Responsibility Principle This post is about the first letter in Uncle Bob's SOLID acronym, Single Responsibility Principle , and a continuation of The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles . Sean has already...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2008 8:21 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: castle, monorail, Agile, C#, principles, SOLID

Naming your test methods

Today I had an opportunity to go to the TDD Coding Dojo hosting by Chad Myers and Ray Houston and I had a blast. Some of the attendees have been doing TDD for a while (some have even migrated to instituting BDD into their development process) and some...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 11:23 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Agile, testing, Pair Programming, TDD

What I do

In response to being tagged by Ben Scheirman : I'm a full-time software developer currently working for Wachovia (formerly World Savings) in San Antonio, TX. I'm a lead developer on the team I'm on. This doesn't mean I'm a master developer...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2007 3:28 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: .NET, microsoft, ReSharper, Agile, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, CruiseControl.NET, Continuous Integration, Automated Build, NAnt

People vs. tools

I'm not a very theoretical guy. I don't like to discuss things to no solution. When presented with a new idea, I like to see the code, tool, or mechanism that helps put that theory/idea into action. I'm fine tuning (still working very hard...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2007 7:38 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Agile, CruiseControl.NET, Continuous Integration, Automated Build, agile project management

Stand-ups

In my current environment We have the following: Developers System Analysts : QA Testers Business Analysts : Domain Experts Every morning at 9am we have our daily stand-up/scrum to enlighten the whole team and let everyone know what is going on. We have...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 7:21 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Agile, XP, Scrum, Stand-Up

Agile Cheat Sheet

Excellent post by Jimmy Bogard. Definitely add him to your feeds if you don't have him yet.

Published Tue, Sep 09 2007 7:08 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Tools, Agile

Skype + Yugma + Logitech Premium USB Headset 350 = Remote Pair Programming

My co-worker, Nelson , and I did some remote pair programming on a side project this weekend. He had talked about Skype and the YugmaSkype plug-in for a couple days. I finally went by Altex and purchased some Logitech Premium USB Headset 350 (mic included...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2007 9:19 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Tools, Agile

Agile Development

Currently I'm working on a team of 8 developers and have been practicing Agile for just under 2 years now. I read about it and tried a couple time before this 2 year span, but didn't realize how wrong I was approaching it. Scott Bellware has been...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2007 9:27 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Programming, Blogs, Agile

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