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This Reminds Me of Me

Scott Hanselman, who has the excellent technology podcast HanselMinutes, wrote about meeting his idols, and how it sounds to an innocent bystander, in this case, his wife. I remember having this feeling coming off TechEd awhile back, after seeing Don Box on stage (in the great immediate post-COM days). It was easy to share the

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Tools of the trade

Oren writes about what’s needed to develop a real application today, in regards to using just the CLR. Although my personal development are very small projects, I can’t live without TestDriven.Net or Reflector. I haven’t used IoC, but I expect this is something I’m going to use from now on. There is something to be

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Runaway Bug Train

Continuing with the metric fest, we calculated that throughout the last year, one of the projects accumulated more than 250 open bugs. That means that after removing the fixed new bugs, and fixed all bugs from the count, the team is far behind in catching up the runaway train. What’s the solution? There’s not one

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How do they remember your software?

One of the things I did as part of the metric collection was look at the number of open bugs in the first release of a version (which should be the Release Candidate, but unfortunately, lately it isn’t) and the final release of a version. What causes extra releases? Bugs. Last minute changes from the

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Finally moving to FireFox

It actually happened today and I’m sold. Due to installing the monthly Microsoft patches, IE decided to close whenever I opened it. A few hours later I isolated which patch actually caused it, and removed it and IE came back to life. But it was too late. In the mean time, I switched to Firefox,

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Knowledge Storage

So where do you put all the knowledge you collect? The easiest place is documents. The problem with those, is that the more knowledge you document, the less likely people are to read them. Today (another) argument I was involved in was regarding the use of dynamic/snapshot views in ClearCase. The methodology we have (due

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