I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

For those of you in the area, just a reminder that the code camp is this weekend and we have a few of our very own CodeBetter guys (Jean-Paul Boodhoo and Scott Bellware), along with Dave Laribee, David Walker, Tim Rayburn, Cory Smith, Ben Shierman, David Nicollette and Eric Stott. Our keynote speaker...

This always drives me nuts. I'm working on a brand spankin new project that has zero code, so a co-worker and I are working on how we want to address the MVP implementation. So lately I'm reading up on new ideas that people have come with since the last time I did a ground-up implementation regarding...

Ok, its time that you start making plans to attend TechFest 2006 , in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 14th. I will be presenting 2 sessions of my own: setting up a continuous integration server with CruiseControl.Net in the Extras track 1, and also creating strongly typed session wrappers in the...

I want to thank everbody who attended the Continuous Integration meeting in Tulsa last night. I know we ran over on time, but there is just so much to cover. Its very hard to squeeze that much content into user group allowed time slots, but hopefully you got a big head start and received enough information...

I just finished a bunch of refactorings on some files in a project. Nothing major, just your normal fixing of code smells and duplications that get left behind when you rush through some stuff. So I finished all the refactorings I was going after and ran my unit tests. Doesn’t that feel good? Don’t you...

I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed them the first time around. Coupling, Abstractness...

Don't forget, the Extreme Programming Workshop and Seminar is in Oklahoma City this Thursday (July 21st) and next Tuesday (July 26th)! Seats are filling up, but plenty of room available, so be sure and register for one of those days! Click here for more details.

Evolution. It is inevitable. Software succumbs to evolution, like everything else. Almost all software goes through a process of revisions and changes between the time it was born a wee little prototype, to its inevitable death. Object oriented programming is by far, IMO, the easiest code design to deal...

I was asked to put together this high-level and traditional software life cycle information as a favor for a friend of a friend, so I thought I might as well share it with everybody. The General Model Software life cycle models describe phases of the software cycle and the order in which those phases...