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Two things worth noting today

1.) [Serious] Rob Conery (of SubSonic fame, and oh yeah I think he works at Microsoft or something, too :)) has posted his FIFTEENTH screencast in his series on building an e-ecommerce app using ASP.NET MVC and exploring and learning lots of things along the way. I tell you, this series was outstanding...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-28-2008
I'm not a real world developer

I made the mistake recently of reading some of the responses to the 'Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence' letter which I'm sure you've heard about already. Granted, I haven't read them all, but so far only one has been of any real value: The one from the EF team themselves . In...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-26-2008
Why Microsoft Won't/Can't/Shouldn't Lead

That's a rather sensationalistic headline, I admit, but it's true and here's why: Any sufficiently large service-based organization is a pure reflection upon its constituency. That is, any sub-optimization, moral bankruptcy, intellectual dishonesty, etc -- either perceived or real -- is due...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-04-2008
A New Start

Today was my first day back with Dovetail Software . It was good to be back with a familiar crew. For those that don't know, I used to work for Dovetail under it's former name (First Choice Software) with Gary Sherman , Kevin Miller , Sam Tyson , and several others. Jeremy Miller started today...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-02-2008
Los Techies Welcomes John Teague to the group

We are happy to announce a new member joining the Los Techies group: John Teague. John is an active member of the Austin .NET users community. He helps out with the Austin .NET User's Group (ADNUG) including the recent Code Camp '08. He's been blogging for awhile over a Geeks With Blogs and...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 06-02-2008
See you at Austin Code Camp!

This week I'll be speaking at Austin Code Camp , a technical conference here in Austin that features in-depth code-centric sessions. The sessions I'm doing are: Intro to C# 3.0 - covering practical and pragmatic applications of the new features of C# Mocks and Stubs - a look at mocking and other...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-15-2008
A pointless exercise

I caught this last night from Scott Hanselman on Twitter: http://www.betterwebapp.com/drupal/?q=screencasts It's a side-by-side comparison of the time to create a simple web app for: Ruby Perl ASP.NET Java The website compares a few other frameworks to compare which languages and frameworks are the...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-05-2008
Tying up loose ends

Blogging Stuff Just in case anyone was following/caring, I had started a few multi-part series posts that kind of fizzled out and I felt I owed the 3 of you who cared an explanation: Agile Arguments: No one seemed to pick up or care about this one. I have a two half-written parts to this, but I'm...

Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 05-04-2008
Developers or engineers?

I've had quite a few job titles where I basically did the same function: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Technical Lead, and so on. In some companies, a Software Developer is a completely different position than Software Engineer, and in others they're used interchangeably. The connotations...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 04-30-2008
Raising the bar

Continuous improvement is absolutely essential for any serious software developer. Personally, my drive for constant improvement is not so much the next shiny developer toy (though this happens occasionally), but the idea that there is always some way to deliver value to the customer better and cheaper...

Posted to Jimmy Bogard (Weblog) by bogardj on 04-25-2008

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