Joel From Canada

During the Ignite Your Coding web cast on November 6, I showed an application that showed the differences between a single threaded application and a multithreaded application.   Here is the source code for that example located on my Public SkyDrive (it's big because it also contains some large XML files).

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I just finished a webcast for Microsoft Canada on the Business Data Catalog - a feature in MOSS that allows you to surface business data stored in various data islands throughout your organization.  I thought I would post some followup information for reference:

Writing scaleable apps in ASP.NET is not an easy task.  Teams often wrestle with being productive (focusing on features) vs building a well architected and scalable solution.   

Want to keep your team focused?  Use checklists - but not any old checklist - try using ETVX - Entry-Task-Verification-eXit

The Team System Process Template Editor is a tool I kicked-off that helped with the creation and maintenance of Team System Process Template definitions as well as work item defintions. 

Check out this article by Nigel Cheshire - quoting both Sam Guckenheimer and Joel Spolsky about whether or not measuring developer performance is a good thing or not.  Both Sam and Joel say to stay clear away from doing this.  Where do you stand?  Personally, I say that we need to "professionalize" our industry a bit more before we can be effective at doing this.  Tools like Team System make instrumentation of developers a lot easier, however I don't think we can clearly understand the inter-relationship of metrics on individual developers well enough yet.  Nigel compares Sales people to Developers in this respect - asking why we can ask Sales people to hit metrics and not ask Developers to do the same.