Author: Cory Foy

I’ve been at several organizations, both large and small, who keep the same chant over and over that offshoring is the key to getting your software cheap. When it comes up, it never seems to be to be a good solution, and so far that’s panned out. None of the offshored projects have succeeded. That’s…

Recently, we had a core NUnit test failing on Mono/Linux. It was expecting the CultureInfo to be set to a certain pattern of string (xx-XX, or [a-z][a-z]-[A-Z][A-Z]), but when I ran it, it was coming back blank. Since CultureInfo is something that is usually read from the underlying OS, I inquired on the Mono list…

During the time off with the new baby, I was able to catch up on some reading. I came across two great articles that are worthy of reading. The first is from Esther Derby. She wrote an article on the Scrum Alliance site entitled 7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Begin Coaching. It’s a…

It’s always amusing to me when people find out I build software for a living and get this, “Well, that must be hard!” expression. The funny thing is that bulding software, fiddling with bits on a computer, isn’t terribly difficult. If I need to add 2 numbers, any language will do that, and even if…

I just started a new project for a web site (non-work related) I am very excited about. One of the things I have to do is make a call to the Yahoo Maps API to Geocode some information. I wanted to wrap the functionality into a class to make it easier to call from my…

Last week, the big news was about Congress voting on the Net Neutrality act, which the telecoms say is vital to keep the internet from having a total meltdown. One of the favorite targets of the lobbysts is Google. Why? Well, according to them, Google and other content providers are getting a “free ride”. For…

This is what I miss about Tampa. A federal judge there Tuesday was fed up with the constant bickering of two lawyers who couldn’t solve even the most basic queries without court intervention. So he did what all of us would probably like to, he ordered them to play Rock, Paper, Scissors on the steps…

Things have been quiet on this front – we’re expecting our first child any day (literally, today is her due date), so we’ve been busy with preperations for that. I’ve also been trying to finish up some dev projects around here, and some cool stuff is going on with that: I’ve been working hard on…

Right now there is a bit of a hot topic in the Agile community around Automated Testing versus Manual testing. Ron Jeffries just posted a great article, and Keith Ray also posted a response to one of Ron’s posts on the Agile Testing mailing list. Ron had said on the list: The only time not…

When I first came on board my current employer, apart from the great teams, great benefits, and all the other goody-goody stuff, there were a couple of things that bothered me slightly. One of those was the belief that all of the developer machines should have identical software setups, and that exploring with other software…