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…
Month: June 2009
Exceptions in Constructors: How Reflection Helped Workaround an Oracle Bug
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…
Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy
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…