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SD, Here I Come!

I'll be at SDWest next week stuffing my brain full of learning until it hurts. If you're going to be there too, let me know and let's meet up! Read More...

Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 3:38 PM by micahel | 1 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 08

What is quality to you? How do you measure quality? When is quality accomplished? If you don't know how your customers would answer these questions, your product probably doesn't meet their needs as well as it could. You can fix this problem. But first Read More...

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 3:38 PM by micahel | 3 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 07

When Jeffrey Richter - who has been consulting to Microsoft lo these many years - talks about "Controversial .Net Topics", anyone who is interested in .Net sits up and listens. The first topic Jeffrey talked about is protecting intellectual property. Read More...

Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 11:59 AM by micahel | 1 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 06

Any session that starts with the comment "All examples in this talk represent things you should NEVER do" has to be good! This morning Dan Appleman explained his views regarding "Why did they do that?", where "they" refers to the designers of Microsoft Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:52 AM by micahel | 0 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 05

Refactoring I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh talking about prefactoring sounded interesting. And it was! You may not know what prefactoring is. I didn't. Ken defines prefactoring as "developing code that reduces the need to refactor". Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:43 PM by micahel | 1 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 04

First up today: Elisabeth Hendrickson discussing how in the world testing can survive in an Agile world. After all, Test traditionally uses all that time it takes Dev to give us something useful to write and review test plans, test specs, and test cases. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:45 AM by micahel | 0 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 03

Scott Meyers . A standing room only crowd. Scott Meyers. Eight hours of Scott Meyers. Fun! Scott's all-day tutorial was titled "Better Software -- No Matter What". To summarize in a single sentence: quality is important. No surprise, right? The reason Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:15 PM by micahel | 0 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 03 [Prologue]

Today I'm attempting an all-day tutorial: Better Software -- No Matter What. Speaking is Scott Meyers , author of the classic Effective C++ book series . Scott is always entertaining and never pulls his punches, so this should be a fun day. Unfortunately Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:28 AM by micahel | 0 Comments

Stuffing My Brain, Part 01

I'm at Software Development West this week. My brain always hurts by the end of the week (this is my eighth SD) but right now that pain is far off. First up is a half-day tutorial on Domain Driven Design presented by Eric Evans (author of the book by Read More...

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 11:00 AM by micahel | 0 Comments