Monthly Archives: April 2010

Albacore, Albacore, Albacore

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A lot of things are happening with Albacore in the next weeks, so I thought I would share with the world:   CODE Magazine My 2nd CODE Magazine article is out now, and it’s an introduction to Ruby, Rake and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

DRY Violations May Indicate A Missed Modeling Opportunity

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Derick Bailey

In a previous blog post, I talked about some potential options for modeling an “item selected” event and a “item de-selected” event. In that post, I suggested a couple of options and stated which one I thought was the right … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, AntiPatterns, C#, Principles and Patterns | 1 Comment

My #LSSC10 Presentation And Experience: “Assumptions Are Risks We Have Accepted”

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Derick Bailey

During the 2nd day’s keynote speech at the Lean Software & Systems Conference (#LSSC10), Bob Charette had the title quote of this post in his slides and his speech. There’s no better way to learn a principle like this than … Continue reading →

Posted in AntiPatterns, Community, Continuous Improvement, Kanban, LSSC | 2 Comments

Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 (#LSSC10) Review

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Last week I attended (and presented at) the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Atlanta and it was well worth the trip! Everything from the keynote speakers to the individual sessions, from the hotel accommodations to the conference rooms, was … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Kanban, Lean Systems, LSSC, LSSC10InfoQ, Management, Networking, Presentations | 8 Comments

Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Derick Bailey

No, not through ViEmu or VsVim… I mean, actual honest to goodness Vim. I’ve been working with Ruby for a not quite a year now (though, not much recently) and in that time I’ve tried a lot of editors and … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Productivity, Resharper, Vim, Visual Studio | 8 Comments

Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I like to remind myself of these little principles that I take for granted, now and then. It’s good habit to get back to basics and really understand why you hold principles so that you can judge whether or not … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, AntiPatterns, C#, Craftsmanship, Principles and Patterns | 9 Comments

Resource Usage: IoC Containers And Large Object Graphs

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Derick Bailey

In my about adding request/reply to the app controller, I talked about some resource usage problems that IoC containers can introduce if they are not used properly. Here’s that original text, again: In a system that makes heavy use of … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Design Patterns, Principles and Patterns | 16 Comments

Partial Book Review: Beautiful Teams.

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A long time ago I received a copy of the book Beautiful Teams for review – actually, it’s been over a year ago, now. I started reading the book immediately when I received it and got through 80 of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Reviews | 5 Comments

Form Management: Tight Or Incorrect Coupling Can Cause Hard To Find Bugs

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A coworker and I ran into this code in some of our WinForms in our Compact Framework (.net 3.5) application: 1: public class LaunchForm: Form 2: { 3: //a bunch of other form/view related stuff 4:  5: private void Login() … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, AntiPatterns, AppController, C#, Compact Framework, Principles and Patterns | 1 Comment

All Solved Problems Are Easy

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I wanted to post a witty retort to something I saw on a website today. I wanted to write about how the people experiencing a particular problem were just doing it wrong and explain how simple this thing really was … Continue reading →

Posted in AntiPatterns, Coaching, Community | 5 Comments