I’m headed to the MVP Summit at the end of this month and I want to take feedback to the team. The summit is a great opportunity for me to give feedback, but I’m certainly not the only one with ‘ideas’ (just check Twitter). So I want to give everyone a voice and I’ll do [...]
Cincinnati Clean Coders
Feb 16
I tweeted today that a team I’m working with has started a weekly patterns and techniques learning cycle to expand the team’s toolbox for creating clean, testable, and flexible code. This came out of some reflection that I’ll dive into in another post. This tweet sparked some interest and I’m happy to follow the rabbit [...]
I and a few coworkers are running a twice monthly web series starting February 10th. This series will touch on the opportunities we’ve been involved in to ease real world situations. If you are working with Team Foundation Server 2010 and are interested in making your life a little easier I invite you to come [...]
I’ve had the pleasure of working with the group organizing Cincinnati Day of Agile. About a week ago we confirm our facility and date: March 26th, 2011 at the Savanna Center in West Chester, Ohio. We expect quite a jump this year, going over 300 attendees. We are currently accepting topics for both the Beginner [...]
Craftmanship was the software development phrase d’jour in 2010 (or maybe REST, it was a close race). To start 2011 Dan North very abruptly stated that Programming is not a craft. I happened to read this a few days before Codemash which was keynoted by Chad Fowler where he very conveniently discussed the Passionate Programmer. [...]