Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
I had to break down and install Visio this afternoon to create some UML sequence diagrams to send to an overseas development partner tomorrow. That breaks a 3+ year streak without drawing a single UML diagram in any kind of modeling tool. I'm planning to promptly begin a new streak next week.
I can't say that I have the slightest yearning to pick up Rational Rose or Visio again. Put me in front of a modeling tool and I go into some sort of zombie mode - "must make class diagram line up better." I'm still waiting for a modeling tool with the "Minority Report" interface. Architecture and design isn't real unless somebody is waving their arms about. Squinting at a Visio screen and fiddling with the mouse just doesn't give me the same architect astronaut high I can get from waving markers in front of a whiteboard in a room with poor ventilation.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
