- hey @marthakelly have you met @garannm? she is also a big javascript fan... 7 hours ago
- woot looks like i get to spend a week working with the Know Your Meme team haxoring on some ruby in the near future. 8 hours ago
- Cheezburger is hiring C# devs. If you are lol-curious you should apply. cheezburger.theresumator.com/apply/NONdUl/A… 11 hours ago
- My weapon would be a ghost. #Blackwater 2 days ago
- RT @Cheezburger: Stick 'Em with the pointy end. A Game of Thrones Cheezburger Site chzb.gr/LBpFrw 4 days ago
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Category Archives: Commentary
Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Build Failed Because You Refactored Unit Tests…
Posted by on July 31, 2009
I have been working on a project with my wife the last few weeks. Since this is a totally personal project I am free to use whatever tools I want to use without having to justify my decisions to a team. So I have been going nuts with the tooling. I set up a SVN [...]
Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action
Posted by on July 24, 2009
UPDATE: Looks like I may have jumped the gun with this review. The actual print version is due to be released in September 2009. So the content may change a bit. I am a huge fan of Manning’s Early Access Program. I get to read books on new technology as they are written. It is [...]
The Vendor Client Relationship (In Real World Situations)
Posted by on June 10, 2009
This one is for all my contractor buddies out there. Stolen from {CodeSqueeze}.
Done, Done, Done: The Cult of Done Manifesto
Posted by on March 26, 2009
Saw this on Boing Boing today and can’t agree more. I declare this my official stance on everything from today forward. The Cult of Done Manifesto There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending [...]
My List of Useful Mac Software
Posted by on January 27, 2009
So I have been living with my Mac Book Pro for a couple months now. I have purposely tried to use OSX for day to day things to force myself to get used to the OS. Here is a nice list of the applications that I have found useful so far. This list is in [...]
Company Bio Take 1
Posted by on October 22, 2008
I have been getting hounded by our webmaster to supply a bio for our company bio page. Here is my first stab at it: Bobby Johnson is a Senior Development Specialist and joined Alliance Enterprises in September 2008. Bobby is an Agile fanatic, Domain Driven Design enthusiast and Unit Testing maven who is not afraid [...]
The 800 Pound Technical Debt Collection Gorilla
Posted by on August 10, 2008
Michael Feathers, the amazing author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, posted recently about technical debt. What happens to code when you don’t refactor? Anyone with any experience knows the answer. It gets messy. It becomes hard to change and the rate at which you can add features slows to a crawl. I was on [...]
Pondering the Social Problem
Posted by on March 27, 2008
After listening to TWIT rave about Twitter for the better part of the last year, I finally signed up when I saw that Scott Hanselman was using it. I did what I thought was expected of me and added Leo Laporte, Scoble, Calacanis, Kevin Rose and Hanselman. I also discovered that Rollins had an account. [...]
Reading Apprenticeship Patterns by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
I started reading Apprenticeship Patterns today after Dave Hoover suggested it to me during a Twitter conversation while he was attending ObtivaCon. It’s a great read so far, I wish someone had handed it to me 10 years ago. Here are some choice quotes thanks to my handy Kindle. Apprenticeship makes a difference because [...]