June 2006 Entries
In my old blog I mentioned that we went from three week iterations down to one week. We were not sure if one week iterations will would for us, but week after week we have seen the fruits. So far, we have been running one week iterations for approximately 12 weeks. Everything came to a halt last week when we could not meet our commitment for the week and all of us worked over the weekend voluntarily. Do one week iterations not work for us anymore? During our retrospective meeting we discussed what...
Standup meetings are a light weight communication tool that many teams utilize to communicate and spread knowledge to everyone that is involved in the project. Those involved includes not only developers, it can include quality control, business, etc, but not everyone has to contribute. Typically, the standup meeting happens in the morning before development starts (At least that is my personal experience with two teams). The intention of this post is not to talk about what standup meetings are,...
I have been working with Indigo since the end of last year, but I have not played with Avalon yet. Since I already have WinFX Feb CTP installed on my machine, I decided to give Avalon a try (I know I am late). I created a new project, and tried to compile it. To my surprise (maybe not), it does not compile. I received the following error: Error 1 The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Wind... task could not be loaded from the assembly PresentationBuildTasks, Version=3.0.51116.0, Culture=neutral,...
As Software Engineers, we need to be concerned about performance when we are building an application. Performance is a very legitimate concern for any non-trivial application, and it requires much thought and care. No matter how wonderful and functional the application is, if it is not performant it will turn users off very quickly. It is natural to want to optimize the code at all times. After all, we have been trained to think in terms of zeros and ones. Loosely speaking, highly optimized applications...
I just moved my blog from blogger to here; hopefully I will receive better service at my new home. I will resurface some of my posts here to get some feedback from the community. I usually blog about Agile software development, Test Driven Development, and Domain Driven Designs on top of the usual .NET stuff. I hope you guys like it. For anyone that is interested, yes, the title of this post does say "hello" in binary and my old blog can be found here...