Archive for April, 2007

Agile Implications

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

In the last few posts, we’ve been talking about Agile Development and the practices that enable it: Iterative and Incremental Development, Refactoring, Active Stakeholder Participation, and Test-Driven Development. Of course, I’m simplifying the concepts implied by “Agile”, in an attempt to distill what I see as the core foundational elements. These are things we need […]

Collapse All

Friday, April 13th, 2007

This is a “collapse all” macro for Visual Studio 2005. It gets annoying having to scroll up and down, expanding and collapsing folders. Sometimes, it would be nice to just tell Visual Studio to collapse everything, and start clean. This little macro does just that.

It’s pronounced Co-Burn

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Interesting audio interview with Alistair Cockburn over at itconversations.com, where he discusses agile development and some of its history. I enjoyed it, and recommend the book, too.

Test Driven Development

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Following a regrettable gap in posting (I’ve been busy buying a house these last few days), we’re back.
Test Driven Development is one of those things that sounds great when you first hear it. Climbing up on the bandwagon is relatively easy. Test Driven Development, however, is not. At least, it hasn’t been for me. I’m […]