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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:58 AM

Peanut, Peanuts, Get Yer Peanuts Here! This One Will Go On And On

Nick's thoughtful reply to my post , yet again deserves it's own post. I have seen many magic quadrants, however they all tend to suffer the same limitation, they attempt to squeeze infinitely variable properties into a limited set of constraints or qualities.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:42 PM

Mort Still Isn't Agile!

The debate goes on ... but Mort still isn't Agile! I appreciate Nick's clarifications, they have helped clear a few misunderstandings, and I'm sure Sam appreciates the apology :) I think Nick's problem started with the boxes. Nick puts working software
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:51 PM

When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail!

It started with a controversial post by Nick , my own blog on the subject seemed to awaken him. Nick kindly commented on my post, and as his comment deserved a longer reply ... here it is ... (the quotes are all from Nick)... I find that I'm being misunderstood
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:50 AM

Morts = Cowboy Coders?

Nick's definition of Mort's and their practices seems to me a lot like 'Cowboy Coders' or 'Hackers' Maybe I'm reading him wrongly, but he just seemed to claim that the drag and droppers are the future (in which he may well be right) but more oddly that
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:29 AM

Documentation Can Be Ambiguous in the Most Insidious Ways

Ayende started with a bold statement ... Frans has a long post about how important is documentation for the maintainability of a project . I disagree. You can read all of it at Working software over comprehensive documentation , but for me the whole thing
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:46 AM

In Response To Rob

Now I rarely bite... but Rob deserves a reply (and plus, until my 9pm meeting I have little else to do! :) Rob said (in response to my comment on his blog): @Casey: Come on homey - gimme a little something here. Your comment is just ridiculous - unit
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:09 AM

Should Ayende Rise To Rob's Challenge?

Ayende asks how he should write the code to demonstrate the ORM solution to Rob's question ... Well - if he feels the need - then I suggest Web Forms or Monorail ... But is there a need? Any example problem has multitudes of possible answers, and any
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Monday, June 11, 2007 10:38 AM

Hope to Desperation!

The weekend started well, I have the authorisation I need to hire 4 top notch developers, I send out a short interview test to the agencies, and am told they have some good people. The test is simple ... to write a small application that can tell the
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:55 PM

Windows Live Writer

Well, I finally got bored of using a web interface to blog, and downloaded Windows Live Writer ... What a breath of fresh air!!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:03 AM

Ruby or Not Ruby ... and some ORM/Relational Database vs Object Database Stuff

Scott Hanselman started yet another great debate ... on Ruby and why it is the '***' ... Today I came across a great artice (via Frans Bouma ), called In Defence of the RDBMS - a very well written debunk of a number or database theorist's
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:34 AM

Oren joins the 'MS losing the Alpha Geeks' debate

Scott started it ... then Oren replied ... and I'm bored so I thought I would reply :) To be honest .. I don't think MS is listening to the BIG companies, so much as it is busy trying to attract the LAMP brigades ... Switching to MS development
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Friday, March 02, 2007 8:02 AM

Another "killer" Interview Question

"Can you tell me some of the development blogs you regularly read, and why you think they are of value?" If someone names the 'gurus' or 'glitterati' of the development blogshphere, it is damn likely they are also a good developer.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:29 AM

"When I hire someone, I'm looking for them to be tall"

What a piece of genius from Scott Hanselman : Here's the deal, when I hire someone, I'm looking for them to be tall . A boss told me once that he just wanted his programmers to be tall, because when you're putting together a basketball team,
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:44 AM

Interview Questions

Why is it that when I have interviewed people for developer positions, they can't answer the most basic of questions? Inspired by a blog elsewhere by Jeff Atwood I thought I would list a few of my basic interview questions on C# and .NET ... he advocates
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