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September 2007 - Jimmy Bogard

  • Values over vendors

    This post was originally published here . Many times when I start explaining Scrum or Agile for the first time, one of the first questions I get asked is "what tool do I use for <project function>"? I fully understand needing to standardize...
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  • Driving and refining Ubiquitous Language

    This post was originally published here . Scott has a nice succinct description of how Ubiquitous Language is defined. In the original description, Eric defines Ubiquitous Language as: A language structured around the domain model and used by all team...
  • Organizing with Solution Folders

    This post was originally published here . I don't know how long it's been around, but I found a nice organization feature for VS Solutions, Solution Folders . Solution Folders are logical (not physical) folders that you can use to organize projects...
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  • SharePoint 2007 Wiki - not a fan

    This post was originally published here . Now that I've written a couple large-ish wiki entries on our team's SharePoint 2007 wiki, I can reasonably say I'm not too impressed with the wiki offerings from MOSS 2007. A few complaints so far: No apparent...
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  • New favorite deployment method

    This post was originally published here . Having run into so many crazy errors from installing MSI's, I've settled on a new favorite deployment mechanism: NAnt (or MSBuild). Here's how it works: Package application and build scripts into one...
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  • Agile cheat sheet

    This post was originally published here . I already have the ReSharper cheat sheet and a Smells to Refactorings quick reference . For those who have every cheat sheet taped to their walls, Dave Laribee created a nice Agile cheat sheet, that includes both...
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  • Weird CruiseControl.NET error

    This post was originally published here . So I'm setting up CC.NET for it seems like the hundredth time, and out of the box I get a weird error from the Dashboard. CC.NET has always been a smooth install and configuration process for me, so I was...
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  • Smells to refactorings quick reference guide

    This post was originally published here . Two books I like to have close by are Martin Fowler's " Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code " and Joshua Kerievsky's " Refactoring to Patterns ". It's not that productive...
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  • Short path to failure

    This post was originally published here . In three easy steps: Separate those making decisions from those affected by the decisions Remove accountability from the decision makers for the decisions made Rinse, repeat After going to the inaugural Agile...
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  • Authoring stories with NBehave 0.3

    This post was originally published here . As Joe already mentioned , Behave# has merged with NBehave. The merged NBehave will still be hosted on CodePlex , and the old project site will redirect to the new CodePlex NBehave site . With the announcement...
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