- 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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Category Archives: Learning in Public
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 [...]
Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework
Posted by on December 18, 2011
NOTE: I am not an Entity Framework expert nor do I claim to be. I am a user of ORMs in the general developer space and this exercise is an attempt to map my workflow and knowledge to EF and it’s associated tools. Here there be dragons. Introduction I have been an ORM fan for many [...]
I Am Sold on Pair Programming
Posted by on October 21, 2011
The benefits of pair programming keep presenting themselves to me the more I actively participate in the practice. One of the greatest benefits for me is the opportunity for accelerated learning and teaching. A quick example While working at Russell Investments pairing with Trevor Redfern I was amazed at his masterful use of the linq [...]
Questions from a Power User on the Road to Programmer
Posted by on June 3, 2011
I have spent the last few weeks working with a power user in our investment services division. This guy has moved beyond Excel Macros and Access databases to ASP.NET WebForms and SQL Server. From what I can tell, he is completely self taught which is something I can respect. We have been working together building [...]
New Sample NancyFx App TickerViewer
Posted by on April 22, 2011
I found some time yesterday to finally play around a bit with some tech that I have been tracking recently; AppHarbor, NancyFx, Highcharts & this spiffy CSV feed on Yahoo Finance. It took a while to figure out how to set up Nancy. I think the documentation is a bit out of date and more [...]
Effective Distributed Teams Over-communicate
Posted by on April 1, 2011
The project that I am currently working on just hired a developer in London. Toyin is the sole developer in the London office. She has a huge burden on her shoulders. Not only does she have to get up to speed on the project, she needs to establish working relationships with the business folks in [...]
An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4
Posted by on March 28, 2011
In my spare time I have been working on a Simple.Data provider for Sqlite. Simple.Data is a lightweight ORM written by Mark Rendle that leans heavily on dynamic types and metaprogramming techniques to create an api that is the closest to Ruby’s Active Record that I have ever seen in .NET. I have been using [...]
Using Query Specifications with Linq to NHibernate
Posted by on March 13, 2011
On my current project, I have been writing a system for staging flat files from a database. A fairly boring system but pretty simple to grasp and implement. Early on I made the decision to do some exploration through my data access strategy. Since my data needs were read only and I needed to work [...]
Refactor This: The Gilded Rose Kata
Posted by on February 13, 2011
After Terry and I came back from SCNA a few months back, we started a contest among the developers here to solve simple katas in public and receive feedback from their peers on their solutions. It was a fun little exercise that had a few weeks of popularity before the novelty wore off and we [...]
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