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July 2007 - Jimmy Bogard

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  • Motivation for iterative development

    This post was originally published here . I've been asked by many teams now, "why iterative development?" I have a lot of strong, but not well-formed ideas why I like iterative or Agile processes over waterfall processes. But in Craig Larman's...
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  • Try Ruby in 15 minutes

    This post was originally published here . There's been more and more buzz on Ruby and Ruby on Rails , especially in the Agile community. If you're interested in seeing what this dynamically-typed language is all about, try out the following 15...
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  • If you can't wait for Team Build 2008...

    This post was originally published here . I just heard of a new project on CodePlex, TfsBuildLab . It looks like it performs a lot of the build features Orcas will provide, and it lets you do it with Team Build 2005: Continuous integration builds Scheduled...
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  • Can your dev team handle Agile/iterative development?

    This post was originally published here . Too often development teams or organizations push straight into an Agile/iterative process like Scrum without considering the implications of iterative development. Iterative development forces regular feedback...
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  • Constrained generic extension methods

    This post was originally published here . When I first saw extension methods, a new feature in C# 3.0, I was a bit skeptical. It seemed like yet another language feature shoehorned in to support LINQ. After going a few rounds with the technology, it actually...
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  • LINQ to Reflection

    This post was originally published here . One of the great things about LINQ is that it allows me to query over any object that implements IEnumerable<T>. This includes arrays, List<T>, Collection<T>, and many others. Since many operations...
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  • Carrot or the stick

    This post was originally published here . Managerial styles regarding motivation interest me from time to time, and I always like to refer to a series of articles from Joel Spolsky : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/08.html http://www.joelonsoftware...
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  • Introducing Behave#

    This post was originally published here . I really like the idea of executable requirements. Executable requirements is the idea that I can express requirements from the business in a human-readable, executable format. Part of fulfilling the requirement...
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  • When Technical Debt leads to bankruptcy

    This post was originally published here . One of my favorite technical metaphors is Technical Debt . It's easy to recognize a system that is collapsing under its own weight with Technical Debt. Those are the ones that are pretty much impossible to...
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  • Refining daily stand-ups

    This post was originally published here . I rediscovered a great article that helped my old Scrum team to refine and improve our daily stand-ups: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html Most of the smells mentioned manifested themselves...
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  • Limitations of generic base classes

    This post was originally published here . I thought I had created something fairly useful with a generic Value Object in a previous post. Generic base classes are nice, and there are several recommended base classes for creating collections classes. Whenever...
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