Today is the official launch of Visual Studio 2012 so I thought I’d share some of the extensions I’ve been leaning on for the last few months. Visual Studio 2012 is a great step forward all by lonesome. The in-the-box enhancements below have been great as our teams and I adopted Visual Studio 2012: Visual [...]
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Scrum.org Face-to-Face Gatherings The weekend prior to Agile 2012, Scrum.org hosted a face-to-face gathering of trainers. These are a mandatory part of being a Scrum.org trainer and it’s a great time. These are bright and passionate people that really want to make the world of software development better. This year as part of the face-to-face [...]
A few minutes ago I merged a pull request from Tim Heuer for a PowerShell command, diffgist (New-DiffGist), based on the gist command in PsGist. With it you can create a gist from git diff in one go. Great for quick code reviews and other feedback. With diffgist there’s a nice –launch option that opens [...]
If anyone tries to tell you Twitter is a waste of time, they have the wrong circle of followers. Today I posted this gist somewhat facetiously asking if the following was an acceptable commit message. Refactoring done earlier didn’t execute acceptance tests. This makes me wonder why we even have acceptance tests. The acceptance tests [...]
A peer gave me a call today to vent about a meeting that didn’t go well. He had spent the last few months working on some really cool stuff that should benefit the company quite a bit. An almost direct bottom line impact. Doesn’t get much better than that at work. Unfortunately, the room was [...]