Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Beginnings... on Agile & bug fixing

About 5 months ago I began the way overdue transfer from VB6/ .NET 1.0/ SQL 2000 to the new and exciting world of C# & VB.NET 3.5. Of course 4.0 is just around the corner with VS2010 being released, but still, I can write about stuff I'm learning :) I'm not expecting that I'll be writing about anything majorly interesting to anyone else, and I won't really be one for answering other people's questions. The stuff I write at work is all confidential, though the stuff I'm learning working in the Microsoft SDC is majorly awesome.


http://www.betterprojects.net/2009/06/email-whiteboards-and-well-caffeinated.html
Fantastic article on project management
1. Set Your Sights - defining the goal
2. The Real Team Energizer - making information critical to the project easily available to everyone in the project
3. Don’t Rush into Commitment
4. Ask Around - see what others have tried


Interesting article on how bugs are a failure in process and 3 questions we need to ask to improve ourselves as devs: (http://secretgeek.net )
1. Is this mistake somewhere else also?
2. What next bug is hidden behind this one?
3. What should I do to prevent bugs like this?


Great quote about agile development. Maybe I should put it on a t-shirt and walk around the office? "Agile is about surfacing pain. It's not about roses, perfume, and happy candlelight dinners together. " http://codebetter.com/

NotImplementedException is an awesome way of stubbing stuff out when you haven't figured out your return statement

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