Wayne Allen's Weblog

My article on peer reviews has finally been published by Cutter IT Journal. Unfortunately a subscription is required to view it. I'm working on making it available freely.

Patrick Logan writes about the debate regarding whether software development is a craft or engineering. He has an interesting spin in that what makes software seem "craft-like" is the informalities.

David St Lawrence has a series on the ongoing process of self publishing his book "Danger Quicksand - Have A Nice Day". Since I look into self publishing every few years or so for myself or clients I am finding David's ideas and resources to be right on target, not to mention that the self publishing option seems to be getting better every year. If you are remotely interested in this topic you need to read part I, part II and part III and any future posts.

A teaser from Clarke's book. If you want to know what the secret ingredient is take a look at his Sticky Minds article.

Just got word today that I am now a Certified Scrum Master!

My guild brother Mark Clerget has a great post about Why Technology Kingdoms Rise and Fall.

A friend asked me today if I preferred to add a scoping prefix to variable with class scope like so:

I had a need (creating CSV BCP files) that required knowing the column names of a MS SQL table in the order they were created. Some inspiration from Mark Clerget and a little fooling around with SQL Query Analyzer resulted in the following.