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C++ pointer basics for kids

A little video to explain pointer basics in C++ to your kids... If you for some weird reason want to do that... Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 9:18 AM by cellfish | 3 Comments
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Testdriven Database development

I recently found this interesting article on TDD when using T-SQL . It describes how a new unit test framework form T-SQL, called tsqlunit , works. Even though it feels like the framework lacks a lot of the fancy asserts and that is probably because of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:10 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Using Project Euler to learn BDD.

Using coding katas is a good way to learn and fine tune TDD/BDD skills. A common way to perform the code katas is in a coding dojo . But a coding dojo involves a lot of people and doing katas on your own might feel a little bit boring. At least I think Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:44 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Should you track completed effort for your tasks?

Many (agile) projects uses a burn down chart to track remaining time. It is a commonly used visualization "tool" for progress. But there are also teams that keep track of completed time for each task. Typically they do this in order to see how the completed Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:55 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Scrum Gathering Stockholm - Day 3

The day started with Ken Schwaber talking on the topic: It is not Scrum if... Basically he tried to correct a number of common misunderstandings from his books. I then attended a breakout session on retrospect concepts . It was nothing new but a few things Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:00 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2008 - Day 2

So the second day was (almost) all about open space sessions. First out was a session on Agile Games and I hoped for a discussion on their usefulness. Turns out the organizer had it all planned and wasn't really interested in any discussion. He just wanted Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:45 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2008 - Day 1

So the first day of Scrum Gathering has come to an end. I just wanted to check in with a few first impressions. The opening session with Jeff Sutherland did not only cover the announced topic; Secret Sauce for Making Scrums Hyperactive . He also talked Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 10:42 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Beginners should not use LINQ

When I first heard of LINQ I got really scared. I could see that it was a very powerful tool but also a tool that would be easy to abuse. Most experienced developers tend to agree that putting SQL statements into your logic or even GUI code is a bad design. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 7:01 PM by cellfish | 12 Comments
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Exit Mocks. Enter Stubs!

Since I'm not a fan of mocks I guess my prayers have been heard. Microsoft Research will soon release a stub framework . That's right. Stubs and not mocks! It is part of Pex that I have mentioned before . And you don't need to use Pex if you don't want. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:13 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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TDD and mocks

First of all I must remind you that I don't like mocks and mocks aren't stubs . But recently I read a very interesting story on code without getters and its consequences . The story is about a company where the developers where asked to develop their Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:57 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Xbox Fit

You will probably never see an Xbox Fit because Microsoft would never get away with things like Nintendo does with the Wii Fit. You have maybe seen this comic before and if you don't own a Wii Fit you may just laugh at it. But there is a lot of truth Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:11 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments

One thing you can do with System Center Cross Platform Extensions

Here is one example of what you can do with System Center Cross Platform Extensions. Just wanted to let you know... Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:09 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Positive reports

Military combat is not the only military concept where software development can learn. One thing we used in my unit was "positive reporting". Positive reporting means that we should report in to our commander often and not only when things go wrong. This Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:00 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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The army is agile!

Up until recently I was a platoon commander in the Swedish national guard. Since all peace time activities in the Swedish national guard are based on work done voluntarily I applied a number of agile principles when running the platoon. I used a task Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:05 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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