Month: August 2009

Right now my good friend Corey Haines has a Pledgie campaign going to help him continue his pair programming tour. Some people may question why they should donate to something like this. After all, their are tons of tales in the software industry about people making it big in short amounts of time. Further, I’ve…

On Wednesday I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at the first Software Craftsmanship North America conference in Chicago. I gave a talk entitled “Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise” which covered the issues surrounding development in the enterprise today, and the steps necessary and both an organizational and individual level to adopt it in your…

One of the things I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is how our industry has grown to this point. By industry I refer to both the Software Development Industry as well as the cottage industry around agile software development. Throughout Agile 2009 and the Software Craftsmanship North America conferences this week, the two most…

In TFS, we use a branching model which is pretty in-line with the normal branching models you’ll see out there. It looks like: $/ branches releases 1.0 1.1 trunk Database Managed Unmanaged Test This morning I was trying to create a branch for a release we did over the weekend. I wanted to take the…