sfeldman.NET
.NET, code, personal thoughts
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What About ALT.NET Calgary Group?
We have some very talented and blade sharp people here. So why can't we start ALT.NET Calgary local group? This would definitely promote excellent ideas around, enrich our dev community, put more stress on quality, agility, and much more. Feel free to contact me if interested.
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The MAtrix
Inspired by people like JP. Thank you.
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Changes
After a long time I had the book sitting idle, finally I had a chance to get my hands
on it - Who Moved My Cheese. A very nice, fairy tale kind-of book teaching how to cope with changes. I loved it, especially it's nice to read if you are trying to wrap around the agility concept. -
Pair-Programming, Keyboard, and Mice
While pairing today with one of the developers from our team, we decided not to let the mice to distract us, and unplugged it. That was awesome - within seconds we diagnosed ourselves with a mouse-have-to-touch addiction symptom. Every single moment a hand was reaching to the sacred location two things happened:
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NHibernate 2.0 Tutorials
Over the weekend I had a chance to play a bit with the tutorials provided by Gabriel Schenker for NHibernate 2.0 TDD style. A few thoughts on the subjects:
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The Dip by Seth Godin
An interesting book where author sharpens things that are quiet simple and have lots of common sense. I loved a few things that are very applicable to myself:
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Whiteboard With Stickers vs. Excel
At the company I work for we are trying to do things in a more agile way. And one of the things that people hesitate to do is to stick to something to 'taste' it. It doesn't necessarily means that there will be no value delivered to the client, or the work will be entirely stalled. To me it means don't turn down right away something until you know what are you talking about. And you won't know what you are talking about unless you do it. So this one is about whiteboard with stickers vs excel spreadsheet.
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JP in the House
Today JP Boodhoo has visited the place I am working for to give a short idea what we should be doing to become more agile and walk the path of true developers. It was short, and we didn't have a chance to hit the base code (code never lies), but this is definitely will wake some up from the Matrix (later on this one).
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VAR To Keep It Simple
Among various things in C# 3.0, one of the syntactical sweets that I find quiet useful is the 'var' keyword. Combined with R# intelligence, you create a very readable code that is not cluttered with excessive type reminders. Just enough to keep it strongly typed and readable.
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Tentity
Tentity - Database mirrored Table representation in code to mimic the concept of entity, bringing DB awareness, cache and persistence concerns in it, with design driven mostly for the state and some functionality dictated by DB operations to be performed on the data. A complete anti-POCO.
