Dylan Smith

I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM frame…

One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful.

I wanted to give my take on developer metrics. I’ve read some posts by a few people out there (here, here, here, and here) that suggest that developer specific metrics do more harm than good. The f…

I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the project management / tracking / estimation methods I use. Over time the processes and tools I use have changed quite a bit, but the way I've been do…

There's been an interesting discussion going on in the TDD mailing list, discussing the benefits (or lack of) of using mock objects and mocking frameworks. The discussion focuses on doing top-down …