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Visual Studio 2012 Quick Launch is Awesome!
Those who know have coded with me have felt the soul crushing comments whenever they touch a mouse. It. Must. Die. For coders at least. Visual Studio hasn’t always made that easy. Visual Studio 2012 is here to help with the new Quick Launch feature. ( VsVim will help too, but in…
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Beyond the Agile Programmer: Innovative Teams
This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Midwest UX conference in Columbus, Ohio. I was incredibly happy to see AIS sponsor the event. While we work hand-in-hand with some great design teams for projects like the Vogue Archive and Rolling Stone Archive, getting…
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Build once, MSDeploy all over the place
There are about 3 dozen ways to automate web app deployment. All have their candy and their evil. MSDeploy is one of the more intense tools, but if you don’t collapse at the command line syntax you’ll find it can be pretty sweet. It’s rather easy to create a basic package, but…
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Better than your average programmer…
There was a minor discussion about enums, constants and branching on a project discussion forum recently. Alternative options suggested included polymorphism, delegate hashes and factories. One of the responses suggested these were beyond “the average programmer”. That’s crazy…
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Double Super Secret Github Feature
@aaronjensen pointed this out in response to the Comparing Github Forks post. ZOINKS! We’re seeing the two commits that differentiate the upstream branch defunkt/master and plastictrophy/master. You won’t find any link or button to get this view… it’s Double Super Secret. Instead…
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Comparing Github Forks
[Update: Check the comments for even better alternatives from @jasonkarns and @aaronjensen] For the purposes of this I’m using https://github.com/defunkt/resque. > git clone git://github.com/defunkt/resque.git > git remote add plastic git://github.com/plastictrophy/resque.git >…
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Create Github Gists without leaving Powershell
I spend a lot of time in PowerShell. A lot. PoshGit, Vim, Chocolatey, and PsGet … it’ll get me through most of my dev day happily. One thing that was killing my workflow was leaving PowerShell to share some snippet of code or a file as a Gist. In Visual Studio we have Gister, but…
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ASP.Net Web Api Integration Tests With Self Hosting
I am trying to help out a team to verify some of their stuff works with the new ASP.Net Web API 4 Beta. While they seem to have a number of unit tests of good quality, there was a dearth of integration tests. I set out to resolve that as simply as possible. To clarify we are…
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Better Burndown: Forecasts that reflect the Cone of Uncertainty
The humble burndown is very easy to create, interpret, use and abuse. They can be very simple, allowing for much discussion and interpretation (or just interpretation… tisk tisk): or they can provide a pretty direct message: Less is More… During a course discussion with fellow…
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Time box: Get-Stuff-Done Tool for Risk Reduction, Focus, and Decision Making
This is part two of a three part series Time box: A Holistic View on Sprints and Iterations Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~ Parkinson’s Law, Cyril Northcote Parkinson On Risk Reduction Teams talk some good game when they sell Agile to their…