I’m sick of all of the whining and posturing in blog posts and comments about Microsoft’s curve ( Dare , anonymous coward , Mini , also Mini ). People - either ICs or leads in backwards organizations - have a belief about what review numbers and levels...

Test Driven Development (TDD) has three steps: write a unit test that fails, write some code that makes that test pass, and then refactor. It’s well-documented ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_driven_development ), and there are a huge number of tools...

I'm not normally a poetry guy. But I'm impressed by this: http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/ . Not only is it intended to be accessible in length and difficulty, it's also freely reproducible ! To make it more geek-accessible, I've created a quickie...

Rather than following up with the topics on other issues I’ve encountered while rolling out Scrum, I’m going to focus on something I think we do right: finding our mistakes, fixing them, and fixing what caused them. On our team, the biggest thing that...

After reviewing one too many books where agile project management techniques are rolled out perfectly to a reticent but soon to be enlightened group of programmers, I was reminded of a quote from an old science fiction novel , “Show me a completely smooth...

Though I have idle thoughts about one day writing a book, I know from watching people go through the process how painful and time-consuming it can be. Since I wanted to learn more about the process, though, I volunteered to do a bunch of technical...

Nautilus is a team working on new software development tools in managed code, taking advantage of WinFX. We're hiring! You can come work for me on compilers or Avalon user interfaces , or on ensuring the quality of a new C# editor . Heck, you can even...

Metriod came out for the NES while I was in grade school. The day I got it, I played it from roughly sun-up to sun-down - it stands out in my mind both because it was an amazing game and because it was the first time I blistered a thumb playing video...