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Month: June 2009

The Misnomer of Open Space

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Cory Foy

Recently there has been an explosion of “Open Space” events and sessions at conferences across the world. Suprisingly (or not-so-suprisingly) the results of these aren’t always this wonderful touchy-feely explosion of experience and sharing that open space events are made out to be. Why is that? First, there are actually two types of events labeled…

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Exceptions in Constructors: How Reflection Helped Workaround an Oracle Bug

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Cory Foy

Our application supports both SQL and Oracle users. To do this, there are certain things that we need present at runtime – like an Oracle Provider. But, in our case, we require a certain version or higher due to the API calls we need to make. During testing for our upcoming release, we found a…

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Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy

Posted on June 10, 2009July 14, 2014 by Cory Foy

To many people, software projects are a lot like black magic. You are trying to build something that no one knows the contents of until it’s been built, in a way that responds to change, in some semblance of a reasonable timeframe and budget. Everything from the estimation process, to the status calls, to the…

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