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Visual Studio Options for TDD revisited

So I previously mention a neat way to set up visual studio to work with a console test runner so you don't switch to the error list all the time. There is a potential problem here. Sometimes you add a compilation error to the code. In this case the post Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 7:31 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Team Coding Dojo 4

This time we diverted from what I think is a basic dojo rule; you start over each time. So we continued with our BankOCR variant from last time and actually finished it including extending the number of digits and having three different checksum variants. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:51 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio Options for TDD

When I first started using xUnit.net the only feasible way to run the tests for me was to use the console test runner as a post build event in visual studio. The only annoying thing about the default settings in visual studio with this setup however is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:35 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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What does commit mean?

I was involved in a discussion on what it means when a team commits to something. In this particular case one person thought that it meant the team will do what it takes to deliver this . I on the other hand I meant the team thinks it can deliver all Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:26 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors released

The interoperability connectors for System Center have now been released : Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Management Console Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP Operations Manager (formerly HP OpenView Operations) Read More...
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 1:11 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Spelling in English

Sorry for this, but I've noticed lately that one thing I learned in the army has been very useful when moving to the US. And that is using the NATO Spelling Alphabet . The last years before the move the Swedish army started to use NATO standards for call Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:21 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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On pride and improvements

So yesterday I wrote about being proud about what you do, but also improving yourself. It made me think about a pretty scary thing that happened to me a few months ago. I was attending this training where we were divided into four teams and worked together Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:19 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Do you want to do a good job or do you want to go home?

A former colleague once said that there are only two types of people; those who want to do a good job and those who want to go home . And it has nothing to do with working over time. The statement is obviously provocative but you should not interpret Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:18 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Military decision making

So I have another comparison between the military and agile and in this case it's lean specifically. Lean prescribes making decisions as late as possible but sometimes it's hard to know when it's time to make a decision. In the military my last company Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:30 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Podcast about System Center Cross Platform

Here is a recent podcast where they talk about System Center Cross Platform and what it can do for you. They also talk about the inter-op part and open source . Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:32 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Pair programming in the army

I've lately been thinking about more things that the military do that is either something agile teams typically do or something agile teams can learn from . So one thing I've been missing in my day to day work lately is how I, as a platoon commander, Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:33 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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System Center OpsMgr X-Plat Providers source code available

So today we published some of the code for the cross platform implementation as open source . It's the code that implements the providers getting all the things needed for monitoring Solaris, Linux, AIX, HPUX etc. The fact that we were going to release Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:07 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Instead of triggers

I've never been a big fan of triggers in a database since the existence of triggers is easily overlooked. I've also seen the use of triggers in situations where they where used to fix a bad database design. Specifically trigger were used to enforce constraints Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:15 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Coding Dojo 3

Third MSFTCorpDojo today and MineSweeper and MicroPairing again. We did almost no design this time and started with only end-to-end tests. In my opinion the purest way of executing a kata. We had very good progress in the first hour but started refactoring Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 9:20 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Remember why you make estimates

Dan North recently wrote about a situation I regretfully recognize too well. Imagine you're asked to take a number of user stories and estimate them using story points. You spend some time breaking the stories up and start estimating and then you get Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:21 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Three good reasons to make small tasks

When talking about Scrum you often hear that the sprint backlog should be broken down into tasks no greater than 16 hours in size. The reasoning behind this, in my opinion is to force the team to breakdown things. I know of several teams that decide on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:05 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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