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• 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... Posted Mar 29 2008, 08:21 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 2 comment(s) 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... Posted Feb 09 2008, 11:23 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Dec 20 2007, 03:28 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 3 comment(s) 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... Posted Nov 25 2007, 07:38 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments 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... Posted Oct 03 2007, 07:21 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 2 comment(s) 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. Posted Sep 18 2007, 07:08 PM by Jason Meridth with | with no comments 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... Posted Sep 17 2007, 09:19 AM by Jason Meridth with | with 9 comment(s) 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... Posted Sep 09 2007, 09:27 PM by Jason Meridth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Blogs, Agile