- RT @lazycoder: "Agile Punks go write an app". http://t.co/Jr5icSpd "While you’ve been worrying about your BDD adverbs the iFart dev just ... 2 hours ago
- OH: No i'm not refactoring on red, well yes I am. - @garybernhardt #seattleSC 4 hours ago
- Roman Numeral Kata done by @jimweirich https://t.co/qcwjDh9Z #seattleSC 4 hours ago
- Hanging out with some coworkers at the first #seattleSC meeting. 4 hours ago
- RT @CwtchyKate: I've just had a random text asking for a naked picture. Unknown source. I sent them this http://t.co/es5B5XuT 7 hours ago
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Sinister Bug is Sinister
Posted by on January 24, 2012
Can you spot the bug in this flags enumeration? In case you can’t spot it with the naked eye (I couldn’t, coworker Alex caught it.), watch this video. Pay attention to the binary display as I enter in the values of my enumeration above. Notice how the bit is steadily walking down the display? What [...]
SSDNUG Presents: James Thigpen – Moar Cats Please: Software Development at Cheezburger
Posted by on January 18, 2012
The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present James Thigpen on Thursday Feburary 9th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. There is a lot of talk in an abstract sense about how agile software practices work. James is going to talk about how Cheezburger does agile [...]
Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch
Posted by on January 17, 2012
Today, I started spiking on displaying maps in iOS using MonoTouch. I wanted to discover the minimum amount of code needed to get the users current location via the iOS GPS services and then display that location on the a map. To get the devices current location you need an instance of CLLocationManager found in [...]
Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch
Posted by on January 16, 2012
I have been flirting with the idea of getting into mobile development in my spare time. I have went so far as to offer myself out as a developer to startups in Chicago to develop simple iOS applications in exchange for tool licenses. I am a firm believer in the idea that a craftsman buys his own [...]
Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video
Posted by on January 14, 2012
Overview During this presentation I will provide an overview of what is needed to get started using Visual Studio 2010 with the AWS Toolkit & SDK. We’ll also cover the basic design ideas behind the do’s and don’ts of cloud architecture and development. There will be some hands on coding (if you’d like to bring [...]
Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas
Posted by on January 3, 2012
I have been working on a small sample application called SignMeUp. My intention is to practice concepts I am learning while reading Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests. I am using the awesome NancyFx micro-framework my web delivery mechanism and Razor as my view engine. To start I have the following unit test. I [...]
Will Write iOS Application for Licenses
Posted by on December 30, 2011
I am interested in getting more into iOS development. I have written some prototypes with XCode and MonoTouch. I really like MonoTouch and would really like my own license, so I can create some personal applications and play in the space. But sadly am unable to afford it at the moment. That is where you [...]
Getting Gilded Rose Under Test
Posted by on December 22, 2011
While I was attending the Software Craftsmanship North America conference this year, Ian Davis post a video of himself performing the Gilded Rose Kata. I really enjoyed watching it and wanted to take a stab at it myself. I had a couple hours to kill sitting at O’Hair waiting on my flight so I fired [...]
The Four Rules of Simple Design
Posted by on December 21, 2011
When you first get involved with agile development, you quickly hear about the SOLID principals and design patterns. They are a bit much to bite off at first. Through the Ruby community I have discovered a simpler more fundamental set of guidance for beginners that appear to be fundamentals for the higher level principals of SOLID, called [...]
The Day the LOLcats Died