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I’m going to write my history with Agile here. That way, in future posts, I can refer back to it, instead of typing it out in the post that contains information you may actually want to read. Note that I’m actually a pretty senior developer, and do lots of technical interviews. I’m an Agile fan because of the difference it makes in peoples lives and the improvement in quality it brings, and I’ll sacrifice my technological advance to help teams. Management History I started management pretty early...
Had a problem with WCF that I thought I should blog about. We're in the scenario where we have a WCF service that needs to call another service to do some calculating and then return the result back to the client. For now, the service is hosted on the same server, but eventually, it could get expensive, so we'll push out that calculation to another server. The WCF configuration also has an endpoint address that is not the same as the base address reported to it by IIS; IIS is of course reporting...
So my exchange server stopped working along with the web server and such, and system attendant started hanging in startup. I searched for the problem and really didn't find anything useful until I found a single forum response that solved the problem. Here's the error message I was seeing in the event viewer: Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE... (PID=3392). Topology discovery failed, error 0x80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC). Look up the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) error code specified...
We were looking for a good issue tracking system a while back. I'd used FootPrints in the past, which I found to be really slow and cumbersome. We tried the IssueTracking starter kit and found it subtantially lacking. Eventually, we tried a product called Gemini from countersoft. They allow you 10 users for free to “get you started”. We used this for about 6 months to a year and then realized that we could use it throughout the company. After the exchange rate, we ended up paying $273...
Sometimes I think e-mail is a bad thing. Over the weekend, our illustrious sales department decided to send out a new campaign to get old customers back to our service. They didn't tell anyone, and rather than using the mechanisms provided by IT to them for the purpose of sending e-mail campaigns, they just opened up Outlook and started BCC'ing people. They send a 2.2 MB file to THOUSANDS of people over our poor little T-1. The mail server also isn't a super large server (the former sysadmin really...