With the flat response from the series so far, I thought I’d stir the pot a little. Again, I am not trying to start a flame war, I just want to share my opinion and start a conversation about it. I’ll start by saying that I am VERY comfortable using SQL. PL/SQL, T-SQL and even a bit of MySQL (ack). But after using NHibernate for the last year or so, I can honestly say that if I never write another sproc, I’ll be totally OK with that. I don’t think sprocs are evil, or ruin your application, for me...

At the AgileKC meeting this last month Martin Olson gave a great overview of Scrum. There were some people who came to learn about Scrum and Agile Development in general. They came to hear the good, the bad and the tips and tricks. One of the things I mentioned, having made my first attempt at XP this last year at my new job, was that they might find some real ugliness in their current development environment and will be forced to deal with it. My Analogy: Agile development is a lot like turning...

I am starting a new series on my blog that will hopefully spark some (civil, productive, non-inflammatory) conversations. These will mostly be random thoughts I have. This will also lead me to post more often and not wait until I have something large to say. So for this [insert frequency of series' posts here]'s entry: The MacBook Pro. I've seen lots of developers lately using MBPs as development machines. I am interested in learning Ruby, so it might be a good option for me. I wonder how they perform....