Category: General

Yesterday, John Lam announced the first source code drop of IronRuby on his blog. People took it an ran with it, including Scott Guthrie who made a neat WPF sample. For those not aware, John Lam works for Microsoft, so it may seem a little strange to see it released like that. Jason Zander has a…

At my Tampa Code Camp presentation Saturday, one of the things I briefly touched on was test-driving stored procedures in SQL Server using Visual Studio 2008. Given that the nature of databases usually prohibits most teams from diving down this path, I wanted to dive more into this very cool feature. A little background first. In…

On Saturday, I had the privilege of attending (and speaking) at the Tampa Code Camp. It was held this year at St. Pete College, which I think was a much better venue than USF was last year. It was a good thing to – estimates put over 400 attendees, not counting speakers. Wow! My session…

I’m in Washington, D.C. this week teaching some classes. We finished up a little early, so I set out with my camera towards the White House since I’ve never been and I’m only 2 blocks away. Here’s some of the more interesting shots:

Brian Harry announced a CodePlex project that allows anyone with a Subversion client to be able to use TFS with that client. This opens up some interesting possibilities, although with the excellent Eclipse integration from Teamprise, it seems to open up possibilities for other IDEs.

There’s lots of good stuff going on! Just got the word today that Agile 2007, being held this year in D.C., is sold out! Hope you have your tickets. I actually think this is great for two reasons. First, it’s wonderful to see this much interest in various agile methodologies. Second, last year it seemed…

A couple of months ago, I got a chance to look at eScrum, an internal process template within Microsoft. While there have been other Scrum templates, this was the one that internal teams were beginning to adopt. It’s very cool that yesterday they announced that it was being released for download on MSDN. Great job…

So the latest hot thing from Apple is that they released Safari for Windows. Granted, it’s in Beta mode, but I just had to download it and try it. My first impression is that it, like all the other Apple apps, doesn’t integrate with the theme. I’m running Vista with Aero, and it is obvious…

In my last post, a good friend Scott Bellware said: Alpha geeks *are* entrepreneurs – especially in agile software businesses. Sorry, Scott, I didn’t mean to imply you weren’t an Alpha-Geek. ;) Seriously, let’s think about it. Who are the people you want to watch? Those who are wanting to get a PowerShell plugin so they…

In Martin Fowler’s article Ruby at Microsoft (which I responded to), he says that Microsoft is losing the AlphaGeeks. While Martin defines an AlphaGeek, the term can also be equated with the type of people who would run WinDBG as their command prompt, just because they can. Recently I’ve been reading a book called MindSet! by John…