First: Principles

(Hey, this is my 200th blog post! And it only took me three years!) One principle of agile development that doesn't get a lot of attenti...

Sophia Travis is a Monroe County Council member - and, remarkably, one who is sophisticated enough to have her own blog. On one post , she...

I've accepted a new job with Envisage Technologies , a small software company in Bloomington. I'm excited about it as it's a co...

The problem with having six inches of snow dumped on us is that the hill that leads to our house has a slope that isn't quite a vertica...

I had to add different versions of a file to my installer today. Seemed easy enough to do - the files were available in the right places an...

Y'know, I'm not affiliated with Microsoft at all, although I own some stock and use their products happily. So I'd like to thin...

Chris has left LibraryThing . I don't know him, but apparently he's done some really good work for one of my favorite Web 2.0 play...

I got into a discussion with someone concerning the blogosphere and its effect on corporations today. Here's something I hadn't rea...

A traveler visited a city where many stone cutters were working. Approaching several, he asked the same question: "What are you doing?&...

This High School is a model for high tech high schools that's being pushed by the Gates Foundation and probably some other places, and ...

Joel's latest article on interviewing is up. It makes some good points, although he continues with the down-to-the-metal idiosyncracy th...

Ordinarily for me, reading and writing blogs is an intellectual exercise. I'm more comfortable and interested in discussing software pro...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #8: Perform regression testing that is based on impact analysis. The first practice in the list that you can't ...

Dr. Hanna's Practice #3: Test for both functional and quality requirements. I would have thought state charts and truth tables were fami...

The whole conference I was at this week for me revolved around the requirements management process. Partly because many companies I've w...

I've posted about the IQAA before, and I regret that I haven't been able to make it to their talks regularly. There is a bit of a ...

Shoutouts to a couple of pages that have made my life easier in the last few days. We use CPPUnit to run unit tests on some of our VC6 appli...

I got a CodePlex project approved, whee. I'm pretty sure I must have grandfathered in since I submitted my request a couple of weeks ...

Crud! I got a call from MBNA to verify some "suspicious activity" on my credit card, and sure enough someone managed to get to th...

I caught the news first from Bill Wagner's blog that NDoc 2.0, the documentation tool for .Net developers, was losing its main developer...