Moooooo…..
For the last decade I have been heavily involved with servers. Invisible, head-less beasts that take a lot of time and effort to get right. However, I was originally attracted to computers by games. Although I don’t play too many games these days, I am still attracted to good UI design and clean web site aesthics.
Over [...]
Agile Task Boards
Cognifide are an off-shore software development company that are working through the wrinkles of making distributed agile software development work effectively. One area that I’ve found that there can be no substitute is the daily task board that is comprised of sketches, index cards, post-it notes and the like. The task board basically reflects the [...]
Lean Software Development
This is a great book. It’s one of those books that has real gem of information every 3-4 pages without fail. Unfortunately, it took me 3 months to read because it became my ultimate commute book. Now a commute book has special properties:
It should be easy to get back into the book within 30 seconds [...]
Queue Calls in WCF
An interesting article on how and why to implement queued calls within Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. Although these patterns are tried and tested, it’s worth reading to see how do things the WCF way…
Agile Certification – Friend or Foe
There has been more and more debate around agile certification, with many arguments for and against it. Now I have just become a Certified Scrum Master by attending a 2-day course. The course was informative and valuable, but you’ve got to take for what it is. It’s a course which at the end of it [...]
WCF Service Trace Viewer
In my last post we got the Getting Started WCF sample up and running within IIS. Now if you’re like me and expect software to failure, then before going any further into WCF you need to get your head around how to troubleshoot problems and/or view what’s going on between client and server applications.
WCF [...]
WCF : First Steps
Today I’m going to get my head around the WCF and run up some examples, so expect some short bursty posts over the next few days. Let’s get to it.
I suppose the first place to go is the Windows Communication Foundation home page at MSDN2. This is a bunch of arbitrary, disparate and what’s new links. [...]
